CHAPTER XII.

REMEMBER now thy Creator in │ But remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while │ the days of thy choice youth, the evil days come not, nor │ while these evil days come not, the years draw nigh, when thou │ and these years approach, of shalt say, I have no pleasure │ which thou shalt say there is in them; │ nothing for me in THEM of happy │ providence;

XII. (1.) =And remember with respect to thy Creators= (but בורא is ‘creating’――see Isaiah xl. 28, xli. 5, xlv. 7, 18, where the participle poel occurs; hence, according to the strict meaning, it ought to be _thy creatings_) =in days of thy choosings= (with the same meaning as before; the sentence is doubtless intentionally equivocal) =until not come days of the evil= (‘the evil days’ is quite correct, but then we must remember the emphasis falls on ‘evil,’ not ‘days’), =and are caused to draw near years= (not ‘the years,’ which spoils the pathos of the passage――years are opposed to days above) =which thou sayest there is nothing to me= (emphatic) =in them of delight= (but not without a shade of the technical meaning, ‘providence’――as man grows older he _expects_ no delight; no great good fortune can come to him).

2 While the sun, or the │ before, too, is darkened the light, or the moon, or the │ sun, and the light, and the stars, be not darkened, nor │ moon, and the stars; and the the clouds return after the │ storm-cloud returns after the rain: │ tempest.

(2.) =Until not darkened= (_i.e._ before this happens) is =the sun,= and =the light= (referring back to chapter xi. 7), =and the moon, and the stars, and return the clouds= (_storm_-clouds) =after the rain= (the tempestuous rain, _i.e._ storm succeeds storm).

3 In the day when the │ In a day when sore moved are keepers of the house shall │ the keepers of the house, tremble, and the strong men │ and the mighty mortals sadly shall bow themselves, and the │ perplex themselves, and the grinders ¹cease because they │ grinding maids are idle because are few, and those that look │ there is little to grind, and out of the windows be darkened,│ the ladies look into gloom │ through the windows; ¹ _Or_, fail because they │ _grind_ little. │

(3.) =In a day= (not _the_ day, which again spoils the pathos. Koheleth is now going to give specimens of evil days) =when disturbed are,= (occurs only Esther iii. 9, and Habakkuk ii. 7, pilpel. This word, שיזעו, has been said to be a late one, but זעוה occurs Deuteronomy xxviii. ♦25; the idea is ‘commotion,’ when they are or may be in commotion) =the keepers of the house, and perplex themselves= (see chapter i. 15, vii. 13), =the men= (אנושי, ‘weak men’) of =the strength= (it is quite consistent with the character of the writer to join such terms as these together, with an oblique sarcasm hidden beneath them), =and cease= (here only, a so-called late word) =the grinding maids, because they are diminished, and are dark the gazers= (feminine) =in the windows= ((1.) the keepers are the slaves; (2.) the strong men the masters; (3.) the grinding maids the women servants; (4) the gazers are the ladies――compare Judges v. 28; thus is comprised the whole family.)

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4 And the doors shall be │ and closed are the doors in the shut in the streets, when the │ street in the failing sound of sound of the grinding is low, │ the mill, and one starts at the and he shall rise up at the │ note of a sparrow, and hushed voice of the bird, and all the │ are all the daughters of song. daughters of musick shall be │ brought low; │

(4.) =And shut are the doors in the street, in the failing voice of the grinding,= (or ‘grinding maid’), =and rises up= (as there is no nominative we must take it as impersonal, ‘one rises up’) =to a voice of the sparrow, and brought low= (see Isaiah ii. 9, and also xxix. 4, where the word is used of a muttering voice) =all daughters of the song.=

5 Also _when_ they shall │ Moreover, the height is be afraid of _that which is_ │ dreaded, and great fears are high, and fears _shall be_ │ in the way, and the almond in the way, and the almond │ tree [the harbinger of spring] tree shall flourish, and the │ is despised, and the little grasshopper shall be a burden, │ grasshopper [of summer] is as and desire shall fail: because │ a burden, and desire itself has man goeth to his long home, │ fled, for man has departed to and the mourners go about the │ his long home, and mourners go streets: │ round the market:

(5.) =Moreover= (this marks a transition in the catalogue of ills, the former were external evils――these come from within) =also from the height they fear; and terrors in the way; and the almond is despised; and burdens itself the grasshopper; and scattered the desire.= (This passage has exercised translators and commentators from the earliest times. The LXX. read――καίγε ἀπὸ ὕψους ὄψονται, καὶ θάμβοι ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ, καὶ ἀνθήσει τὸ ἀμύγδαλον, καὶ ♦παχυνθῇ ἡ ἀκρίς, καὶ διασκεδασθῇ ἡ καππάρις――‘and they shall look from the height, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the locust shall increase, and the caper berry shall be scattered.’ Here B. read εἰς τὸ ὕψος, ‘into the height.’ Aquila, τρόμῳ τρομήσουσιν, ‘they shall tremble a trembling;’ and καὶ καρπεύσει ἡ καππάρις, ‘the caper-berry shall fructify.’ Now Symmachus, quoted by Jerome, read――‘Super hæc etiam de eccelso videbunt, et error erit in via, et obdormiet vigilans, et dissolvetur spiritus fortitudo.’ The last words are, however, preserved in Greek――καὶ διαλυθῇ ἡ ἐπίπονος. ‘On these they look from the height, and error will be in the way, and the watchful will fall asleep, and the courage of the spirit will be dissolved.’ The Syriac reads――(‡ Syriac phrase)――‘and also from the height they fear, and shall be terrified in the way, and the watch shall rush upon him, and the almond flourish, and the grasshopper be increased, and the caper shall burst, and desire shall cease.’ We think that, with these different versions before us, all of which have preserved portions of the original, we shall be able to conjecture the meaning of the text. It is just possible that originally the text read מגביה, and which might have been altered by displacing the י, and putting it on to the beginning of the next word; for otherwise it is hard to suppose that the LXX. would go out of their way to alter a reading the meaning of which, as it stands, is so obvious. B. seems to have preserved this original reading. The difference to the sense, however, is not great, as this looking upwards is evidently the effect of fear, as is shown by the next clause. This begins with the word וחתחתים――a reduplicated and therefore emphasized form of חתת, to ‘be dismayed,’ or ‘distracted,’ as in the sense of ‘broken in pieces;’ hence the rendering of Aquila: ‘These intense tremblings in the way’――which word ‘way’ surely we may interpret in the ethical sense so common in this book of ‘way of life’――are the natural result of ‘looking with fearfulness into the height.’ Compare chapter iii. 21.

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The next clause is still more obscure. The word ינאץ has, in all other places, the meaning ‘to be despised,’ or, in piel, to ‘provoke.’ The hiphil occurs here only, and is rendered, contrary to all analogy, ‘flourish.’ This is virtually to alter the text; and though the LXX. support this rendering, it is clear, from its various readings, that the Greek text has also been tampered with. The original meaning has apparently been preserved by Symmachus, and by the alternative rendering of the Syriac. Then as to ‘the almond tree,’ השקד: the word occurs Genesis xliii. 11, Numbers xvii. 8 (23), Jeremiah i. 11, _all_. This last passage gives probably the clue. The almond is the first tree to blossom in the coming spring, and is its harbinger; it is, as it were, in a hurry to welcome it; but this harbinger of spring is despised. As to the interpretation that the almond blossom is an allegorical description of the white hairs of an old man, it may be answered that the almond blossom is pink, not white.

The next clause――‘The grasshopper shall be a burden’――may be explained by noticing that the word חגב occurs Numbers xiii. 33, Isaiah xl. 22, as the type of something small or insignificant. The only other two places, viz. Leviticus xi. 22, 2 Chronicles vii. 13, where the word occurs, show that this creature was edible, but might become a plague. ‎‏יסתבל, the hithpael of סבל, occurs here only; ‘burdens itself’ is the exact meaning. The English Version no doubt gives here the true sense.

The next clause――‘Desire shall fail’――may be explained in the same way. The word תפר, the hiphil of פרר, has always the meaning to ‘break,’ ‘disannul’――see Numbers xxx. 13, Job xv. 4, and hophal, Zechariah xi. 11. Evidently Symmachus, with the reading διαλυθῇ ἡ ἐπίπονος, has preserved the true meaning; for by ἐπίπονος he has rendered the word ‎‏אביונה, which occurs here only. Now we have no right to seek a strange signification for this word when fair sense can be made according to the ordinary derivations. אביון occurs frequently in the sense of ‘a poor person’――the root being אבה, ‘to wish,’ or ‘desire.’ Jerome translates, as we see――‘Et dissolvetur spiritus fortitudinis’――‘the spirit or breath of the brave is dissolved,’ which is _ad sensum_; so that we may take אביונה as simply an abstract of אביון, with the meaning of ‘wishfulness,’ or ‘longing.’ Thus the reading of the LXX. is explained: Capers are provocatives of desire or appetite, and hence their Hebrew name. The ἐπίπονος of Symmachus occurs only once again, at Isaiah liii. 3, where it represents the Hebrew מכאבות, ‘griefs’ (see Field’s most instructive note, Hexaplar _in loc._). Thus we venture to offer the following as a probable explanation of this passage:――‘Besides, they look with dread on high, and great dismay is in the way, and the almond tree (as a symbol of anticipation) is despised, and the grasshopper (as a symbol of what is small and light) is burdensome, and the caper-berries (as the symbol of desires or longings) are scattered.’ In the last clause the metaphorical out-tops the literal meaning, as the Authorized Version renders, rightly abandoning the LXX. at this point.) =For= (or ‘so’) =advances= (הלך, recalling chapter i.) =the man= (in the ordinary technical meaning of humanity) =to= (‘towards,’ LXX. εἰς, in its primary sense of motion to a place) =a house of his age= (עלמו, having its ordinary sense of ‘the age,’ or αἰὼν, as the LXX. render. The Authorized Version’s ‘long home’ is a beautiful paraphrase: his ‘brief home’ is his _house_; his ‘long home’ his _tomb_), =and go round in the street= (which the LXX. render ἐν ἀγορᾷ, ‘in the market’) =the mourners= (those who mourn for the dead).

6 Or ever the silver cord │ or ever the silver line runs be loosed, or the golden bowl │ out, or the golden oil bowl is be broken, or the pitcher be │ removed, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the │ shattered at the fountain, or wheel broken at the cistern. │ wheel runs down at the well, or │ the dust returns to the earth 7 Then shall the dust return │ where it was, or the spirit is to the earth as it was: and │ returning to the Almighty, its the spirit shall return unto │ giver; God who gave it. │

(6. 7.) =Until not= (marking another break in the comparison) =is loosed= (according to the Kri, but this is only a conjecture of the Masorets; if correct, the niphal occurs here only, but the chetib, ירחק, means ‘to be far from;’ and thus the LXX. render by ἀνατραπῇ, ‘turned back,’ and this appears to be correct) =a cord of the silver= (the Hebrew idiom for our ‘the _silver_ cord.’ If we understand this to mean the silver cord from which the lamp is suspended, we shall perceive the allusion), =and is broken= (תרץ, so far as the unpointed text is concerned, might be feminine third future Kal of רוץ, ‘to run’――see Genesis xxix. 12. The LXX. render by συνθλιβῇ, which occurs Sira xxxi. 14 only; but it also may be from רצץ――see Judges ix. 53. B. reads συντριβῇ; but this is an error, the origin of which is the similarity of the two words and the occurrence of them both in the same sentence), =a bowl= (גלת, used by Zechariah to denote the reservoir which contained the oil for the golden candlestick of the temple, Zechariah iv. 2, 3. The LXX. render ἀνθέμιον, which also occurs Exodus xxxviii. 16, ‘for the round ornaments;’ compare also Joshua xv. 19, Judges i. 15, where the word evidently signifies a reservoir for irrigation; גלה also occurs 1 Kings vii. 41, etc. If the ‘golden bowl of the lamp’ be taken as the most probable meaning, it will admirably suit the context), =of the gold= (the idea then is apparently that of a golden lamp bowl suspended by a silver cord; the lamp would be let down daily at least; the golden bowl would then run down and be taken away to be replenished); =and is shivered= (see Leviticus vi. 28 (21)) =a pitcher upon= (or over) =the spring= (occurs Isaiah xxxv. 7, xlix. 10, and is evidently a spring gushing out of the ground, as opposed to בור, which is a sunken well or cistern), =and= is =run= (but the word is niphal, and the LXX. render συντροχάσῃ, ‘run down to’) =the wheel= (with the article, because the special wheel is meant which stands over the cistern) =towards= (אל, the preposition is different) =the well; and returns the dust upon the earth as it was, and the spirit is returning= (both futures, but one written full, the other contracted; there is perhaps a slight distinction――one also follows, the other goes before, its verb) =to= (אל; LXX. πρὸς) =the Deity who= (but full relative, as compared with the contracted form above) =gave it= (feminine, to agree with רוח; but, as we have so often seen, this close agreement gives a peculiar meaning; it is especially the divine _gift_).

8 ¶ Vanity of vanities, │ so――evanescence of evanescence, saith the Preacher; all _is_ │ says the Preacher, the whole is vanity. │ evanescent.

(8.) =Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher= (with the article, the Preacher as such, generic), =the whole is vanity=.

We must notice, in interpreting these last verses that the acts described are all such as take time, indeed but a short time, to accomplish, and occur frequently. The string of the lamp will be loosed almost daily, and the lamp taken away; and surely no more poetical or impressive metaphor of death can be discovered than a lamp with oil-bowl gone. Next we have the shattered pitcher――an accident which may happen at any time; and then the bucket running down into the well, which is a comparatively frequent occurrence, and may well bring vividly before our minds the disappearance of one who was just before familiarly among us. That the bucket might be drawn up again full of living water is necessarily not mentioned, but is one of those hidden sarcastic promises in which the book delights. The last two clauses are joined together by the simple ‘and;’ but there is clearly at this point a transition from simile to metaphor, which the Authorized Version notices. If indeed one likes to take it so, the simile is true enough of dust and wind, but the last clause discloses a deeper meaning. After all, the promises of a resurrection are but scarcely hidden behind the apparent hopelessness of the conclusion arrived at.

The interpretation which makes the whole of this passage a metaphorical description of old age, comes from no more authoritative source than Hagadic interpretation, as embodied in the Chaldee Targum. There is no proof that any allegory was intended, and the literal meaning is not only to the purpose, but exceedingly touching and beautiful. The arrangement of clauses, also, is highly artificial, which may be seen by counting them as marked off by the recurring forms ‘or ever,’ ‘also,’ and the like.

│ SECTION V.――_Epilogue._ │ 9 And ¹moreover, because the │ But there is something yet to Preacher was wise, he still │ come: for the Preacher _was_ taught the people knowledge; │ wise; he yet taught knowledge yea, he gave good heed, and │ with respect to men generally; sought out, _and_ set in order │ and, pondering, he tracked out many proverbs. │ the solution of [these] enigmas │ to the utmost. ¹ _Or_, the more wise the │ Preacher was. │

(9.) =And for the rest= (for now is to be added something over and above, to form a supplement to what went before; compare 1 Kings xiv. 19 both for the Hebrew and Greek. As the word וְיֹתֵ֕ר stands first, it is the subject: whether we point it as noun or participle will not make much difference to the sense, but the Masoretic pointing is best; they also, with great taste, put a large distinctive accent on the word. The meaning is, ‘there is something yet to be added;’) =that he was= (the contract-relative with subject verb) even a =Koheleth= (_i.e._ a preacher or gatherer) who was =wise, yet= (the LXX. render καὶ ὅτι, ‘nevertheless,’ but their rendering is very remarkable and we will discuss it at length presently) =taught knowledge= (and in the sense so common in this book, of the knowledge how to act under a given set of circumstances) =with respect to the people= (not as usually understood that he taught the people knowledge, but taught knowledge with regard to the people, the _collected_ body of humanity; compare chapter iv. 16) =and he gave heed, and he sought out= (Deuteronomy xiii. 4; Psalms cxxxix. 1) =an order= (chapter i. 15, viii. 18; this is the third time of occurrence of this root, which is peculiar to this book. The Masorets point as piel pret., it might however be a noun, as the LXX. render it, and we shall see reason presently for adopting this interpretation) =of parables the many.=

10 The Preacher sought to │ The Preacher, indeed, sought find out ¹acceptable words: │ to discover the reasons for a and _that which was_ written │ providence, but what he _has_ _was_ upright, _even_ words of │ written is the real matter of truth. │ truth. │ ¹ _Hebrew_ words of delight. │

(10.) =Sought Koheleth to find words of providence= (דבר and חפץ, both in their usual technical senses) =and written= (full participial form) =uprightness, words of truth.= (The passage is very obscure; the LXX. render καὶ περισσὸν ὅτι ἐγένετο ὁ ἐκκλησιαστὴς σοφὸς [καὶ] ὅτι ἐδίδαξεν γνῶσιν σὺν τὸν ἄνθροπον καὶ οὖς ἐξιχνιάσεται κόσμιον παραβολῶν. Πολλὰ, κ.τ.λ. ‘and for the rest, because the Preacher was wise, and because he taught knowledge with respect to the man, and his ear will trace out the orderly arrangement of parables.’ Now, some curious features in this rendering deserve notice――the word κόσμιον occurs 1 Timothy ii. 9, and iii. 2; it is used as a neuter, ‘orderliness.’ Again, את העם is rendered σὺν τὸν ἄνθρωπον. B. omits and A² includes in brackets the καὶ, so marked, in the text; A² reads ἔτι; F.X. omit σὺν; F. reads [for ἄνθρωπον] λαὸν; E. ἐξιχνίασε; and D. κόσμον. Thus it appears probable that the LXX. read יחקר and as this future follows the past, we have the sense of the imperfect: they also translated σὺν τὸν ἄνθρωπον, because they considered העם as used generically――see chapter iv. 16, and in the same sense. If, however, the Hebrew text were altered, which would be done simply by lengthening the jud י into van ו, the rendering of the LXX. would become unintelligible, and hence the variations, especially that of E. Then אזן, which is really nominative to יחקר, and emphatic as standing before it, came to be regarded as a verb and pointed piel, the only instance of such pointing that occurs, and then accenting וְחִקֵּ֔ר with zakeph, the Masorets made these two words a parenthesis, and pointed ‎‏תִּקֵּן as a piel pret., instead of a noun as do the LXX.; they then make ‎‏הרבה singular agree with the plural משלים, which would, according to the usage of this book, be distributive. On the whole, however, it seems very probable that the LXX. have preserved the right reading, or at least the meaning of the passage; this meaning is, ‘and for the rest, because Koheleth _was_ a wise man, still he taught knowledge with respect to the people, and his ear [_i.e._ judgment, for the word contains the idea of weighing as in a balance] was seeking out an orderly meaning [or solution] of parables;’ by parables he means doubtless the mysterious facts cited. The next verse takes this thought up thus: ‘Very much sought Koheleth in order to find words of providence――and written correctly words of truth.’ If the reading were really וכתוב, and not, as we may conjecture, יכתוב, we should then read ‘he was writing,’ which it must be confessed makes excellent sense. The LXX. render here [καὶ] γεγραμμένον εὐθύτητος λόγους ἀληθείας, in the accusative, governed by ἐζήτησεν, and the meaning is therefore, ‘sought ... a thing written of right [even] words of truth.’ This agrees altogether with the context, and also is cognate with what follows).

11 The words of the wise │ These reasons of the wise are _are_ as goads, and as nails │ like goads, but they are like fastened _by_ the masters of │ stakes as well, deeply fixed, assemblies, _which_ are given │ dominating over the herd, from one shepherd. │ appointed so by a shepherd, │ who is the only one.

(11.) =The words of= (but as דברי is repeated, we have ‘those words of’) =wise men as goads= (דברי חכמים כדרבנות; the play is manifest between דבר and ‎‏דרב, but דרבנות occurs here only, note also its two accents, and the noun in a concrete form at 1 Samuel xiii. 21) =and as nails= (the particle of comparison being repeated, gives the idea ‘but as nails as well,’ but מַשְֹמְרֹות, spelt with the letter sin, occurs here only; only one instance of a piel participle of the very common verb שמר occurs, viz. Jonah ii. 8 (9), but the noun משמר is also quite common; see 1 Chronicles ix. 23, where למִשׁמָרוֹת occurs in the sense of ‘by wards’) =planted masters of assemblies= (אספה, occurs as a feminine noun Isaiah xxiv. 22; LXX. συναγωγὴν. This word has a curious history, which will further illustrate its meaning at this place. The reading of the Hexapla at Isaiah xxiv. 22 is: Οʹ. καὶ συνάξουσι ※ συναγωγὴν αὐτῆς ※ εἰς δεσμωτήριον καὶ ἀποκλείσουσιν εἰς ὀχύρωμα. Σ. καὶ ἀθροισθήσονται ἀθροισμὸν δεσμίου καὶ συγκλεισθήσονται εἰς συγκλεισμόν, showing a difficulty about the word which in the Hexapla is included between ♦asterisks. Here the Peshito renders Koheleth by (‡ Syriac word) ‘masters of thresholds,’ and uses this same word at Exodus xii. 22, 23, and Deuteronomy vi. 9; hence they understood the allusion to be to the stake set across the entrance of the fold to prevent the cattle from straying out. That this reading will explain Isaiah xxiv. 22 is evident enough, and that it will explain this passage also will be seen if we look upon these goads as both compelling the oxen to labour, and, as the Syriac renders, forming the stakes which close the entrance to the lair); =are given from a shepherd, one only= (notice that אחד stands emphatically at the end of the sentence, and must mean, therefore, ‘the shepherd, who is the only one.’ This verse has greatly perplexed commentators: a diligent perusal of the ancient versions, and following the hint given by the Syriac above, will show us what is the real meaning. The LXX. read πεπυρωμένοι A¹. D. E. X., which A², B alter to πεφυτευμένοι, and which Aquila follows; probably πεπυρωμένοι was a misreading of πεπαρμένοι, from πάρω, ‘to infix;’ Symmachus reads πεπηγότες ‘constructed on,’ see Hebrews viii. 2. All the ancient Greek versions consider בעלי as a preposition, and render by παρὰ τῶν; the LXX. render אספות by συναγμάτων; B. συνθεμάτων; Aquila συνταγμάτων; Syriac Hexapla (‡ Syriac phrase); Symmachus συναχθέντων, otherwise συναντημάτων; Syriac (‡ Syriac phrase), all which words have nearly the same meaning. The Syriac also gives here, from Theodotion, what is possibly a rendering of this place, but may be intended for παρεωραμένῳ, in verse 14, (‡ Syriac phrase), _i.e._ ἀόρατοι, ‘unseen things.’ The Peshito rendering, perhaps, may give us the clue――these ‘collections’ or ‘collectanea’ are the instances of human life adduced by Koheleth, and it is men [like a herd of oxen driven by goads, and confined by stakes] over which these wise words are masters; and this we think will make all clear. The meaning of the passage will be: ‘These words of wise men are like goads, by which the ox is incited to labour, but then they are like stakes [_i.e._ to which the ox may be tied, or, of which a fence might be made to confine him] as well, planted around the persons brought together, [or the herd, and so infixed as masters of the assembly]; they are given from the shepherd [or herdsman’――for the word has both senses] ――‘who is the only one;’ or, since מֵרֶֹעֶה is ambiguous, and pointed מִרְעֶה means ‘pasture,’ they give pasture only. Thus the metaphor is kept up and the equivoke maintained).

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12 And further, by these, │ But as to anything else from my son, be admonished: of │ these, my son, be warned: making many books _there is_ │ making of many treatises would no end; and much ¹study _is_ │ lead to no result, and much a weariness of the flesh. │ study would but weary the body. │ ¹ _Or_, reading. │

(12.) =But for the rest= (repeating the formula of verse 9, and hence a further extension of the same idea), =from them= (emphatic, ‘but for anything else that these wise words can do’ is the meaning) =my son, be admonished: makings= of =books= (ספרים used for the sake of the alliteration with אספות above) =the many= (_i.e._ too many) =is nothing of an end= (_i.e._ gives no result) =and study= (להג occurs here only, LXX. μελέτη) =the much= (too much) =wearies= (compare chapter i. 8) =the flesh=. (Thus even wisdom itself is no cure for the ills of humanity. The catalogue of human ills and the instances of human evanescence would form too large a volume for humanity to master, so that in this case also the world itself would not contain the books which should be written. The grand result of all however is easily obtained, and follows.)

13 ¶ ¹Let us hear the │ The end of the matter, even conclusion of the whole │ all that hath been heard, matter: Fear God, and keep his │ is this: WITH REGARD TO THE commandments: for this _is_ │ ALMIGHTY, FEAR HIM; AND WITH the whole _duty_ of man. │ REGARD ALSO TO HIS COMMANDMENTS, │ KEEP THEM, FOR THIS IS ¹ _Or_, The end of the │ EVERYTHING TO HUMANITY. matter, _even_ all that │ hath been heard, _is_. │

(13.) =The conclusion= (compare chapter iii. 11, vii. 2) of the =word= (_i.e._ the final reason), =the whole= (with article in its usual sense), =is heard= (niphal), =with respect to the Deity, fear; and with respect to his commandments, keep= (notice the emphatic את, which, however, the LXX. do not render by σὺν, because the article and position give the emphasis required) =for this= is =all the man= (_i.e._ the whole duty, happiness, etc., of humanity).

14 For God shall bring every │ For with respect to every work into judgment, with every │ act, the Almighty will bring secret thing, whether _it be_ │ to adjustment all that is good, or whether _it be_ evil. │ mysterious, whether it be a │ good or an evil.

(14.) =For with respect to all working= (or doings, notice the prefixed ‎‏מ) =the Deity= (noun before the verb) =is bringing into judgment upon all the hidden= (niphal participle, but עלם has not lost its meaning, it is the hidden past and future, hence the LXX. παρεωραμένῳ, ‘overlooked,’ compare 1 Kings x. 3), =if it be good or if evil= (if it be a good act or an evil one either. That is, God will bring all these mysteries into orderly adjustment, and in the sequel vindicate his holiness and justice).

Δόξα ἐν ὑψίστοις θεῷ καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς εἰρήνη ἐν ἀνθρόποις ε ὐ δ ο κ ί α――LUKE ii. 14.

♦ERRATA.

♦ All Errata and Addenda items have been corrected in the text.

Page 7,  NOTES, column 2 line 14, _for_ ‘hiphil’ _read_ ‘niphal.’

Page 19, TEXT, line 10, _for_ ‘he’ _read_ ‘He.’

Page 31, NOTES, column 2, line 6, _for_ ‘ratio’ _read_ ‘oratio.’

ADDENDA.

Page 9, NOTES. _At end of Note on verse 17, after_ ‘spirit,’ _add_: It may be observed that רעיון occurs in the Chaldee of Daniel――see Daniel ii. 29, 30; iv. 19 (16); v. 6, etc., always in the sense of a ‘_painful_ reflection,’ but in later Chaldee and Syriac as ‘a reflection’ of any kind. As the sense in which Koheleth uses the word is the nearest to the root-meaning, is it not an evidence, so far, of earlier composition of his book?

Page 12, NOTES. _At end of Note on verse 5 add_: It should have been mentioned that פרדס is also considered to afford an indication of late composition. It is said to be a Persian word; it occurs, however, Nehemiah ii. 8; Canticles iv. 10. The word admits of Semitic derivation, from פרד, ‘to divide,’ ‘cut off in portions,’ ‘lay out.’ If it be really an exotic, no date of introduction is more probable than that of Solomon. It is also to be noted that in the context it _follows_ the word ‘gardens,’ which is quite natural if it were intended to denote a foreign luxury recently introduced.

Page 15, NOTES. _At end of Note on verse 12 add_: This most obscure passage may perhaps receive some light from a further discussion of the word כבר and other forms derived from the same root. The feminine or abstract occurs Genesis xxxv. 16, xlviii. 7, and 2 Kings v. 19, joined with ארץ, rendered in the Authorized Version a ‘little’ way. The verb occurs in hiphil, Job xxxv. 16, xxxvi. 31, translated ‘multiplied,’ ‘in abundance;’ and in the hiphil form, with the characteristic _jud̄_ inserted――Job viii. 2, xv. 10, etc.; Isaiah x. 13, xvii. 12, etc.――in the sense of ‘full of years,’ ‘overflowing,’ and the like. A diligent comparison of these meanings shows that ‘fulness,’ in the sense of ‘completeness,’ must be the root-meaning; and hence, when applied to time, the LXX. render ἤδη, ‘already.’ With this meaning agree also the Arabic and Syriac, see Fuerst, Lexicon, _s. voc_. The meaning then of the word is, the ‘_complete_ present.’ With regard to the use of the root מלך in the sense of counsel, it occurs once in Hebrew, viz. Nehemiah v. 7, and once in biblical Chaldee, Daniel iv. 27 (24). This meaning is common, as remarked in the note, in Aramaic. The fair inference from this is, that the root-meaning of the Hebrew word is ‘to counsel,’ just as the root-meaning of the word Apostle is ‘one sent.’ These senses are just what the context requires. Koheleth turns round to see wisdom in comparison with, or contradistinction to, false hopes and false prudence, and asks how the man, that is, humanity, can tell the one from the other. His words are ‘what is,’ not ‘_who_ is the man,’ etc., equivalent to――‘in what way can humanity enter upon the results of the counsel,’ ‘or the king,’――the equivoke being, we believe, intentional, and the contracted relative giving a conditional turn to the sentence――‘with respect to that which at present he performs it.’ It would have been better if the word =with= had been printed in the notes with a small letter, as the division hardly amounts to a period, though the connexion is not close. The suffix of the verb refers back through the relative pronoun to counsel, and might be well rendered into English thus――‘In respect of which he at present takes that counsel.’ The LXX., contrary to their custom, omit ἤδη, because it is perhaps sufficiently included in ἐπελεύσεται, or because τὰ ὅσα ἤδη ἐποίησαν αὐτήν would not have been intelligible. It is evident this all squares with the context. Koheleth, as Solomon, discovered that with all his wisdom he could not practically discern the difference between this true wisdom and that false prudence which led him to accumulate only to be disappointed in his successor.

Page 19, NOTES. _At end of Note on verse 25 add_: The phrase ומי יחוש חוץ ‎‏ממני requires further elucidation. The reading ממנו, supported by the LXX., is also confirmed by Hebrew MSS. The literal rendering is――‘and who hastens outside him.’ This the LXX. translate καὶ τίς πιέται πάρεξ αὐτοῦ, ‘who drinks,’ etc. There is a reading of A², φείσεται, ‘spares.’ The former is supported by Peshito, Arabic, and Theodotion――the latter by Aquila, Symmachus, and Jerome. If the Greek text alone had to be considered, φείσεται would, as the harder reading, be entitled to the preference. It is readily seen, however, that it arose from a conjectural alteration of the Hebrew text into חוס, for which there is no authority; neither will the meaning to ‘spare’ make any sense in the context. As the root occurs frequently, we are driven to the conclusion that the rendering of the LXX. was by design. Schleusner’s conjecture that πίεται is used in the signification of ‘sensibus frui,’ is no doubt correct――compare Habakkuk i. 8, as also Isaiah xxviii. 16. Considered as _ad sensum_, this rendering gives the idea of the Hebrew text correctly.

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“_From the French of Jean Nicolas Grou, a pious Priest, whose works teach resignation to the Divine will. He loved, we are told, to inculcate simplicity, freedom from all affectation and unreality, the patience and humility which are too surely grounded in self-knowledge to be surprised at a fall, but withal so allied to confidence in God as to make recovery easy and sure. This is the spirit of the volume which is intended to furnish advice to those who would cultivate a quiet, meek, and childlike spirit._”――PUBLIC OPINION.

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“_The author of the Life of Père Besson writes with a grace and refinement of devotional feeling peculiarly suited to a subject-matter which suffers beyond most others from any coarseness of touch. It would be difficult to find ‘the simplicity and purity of a holy life’ more exquisitely illustrated than in Father Besson’s career, both before and after his joining the Dominican Order under the auspices of Lacordaire.... Certainly we have never come across what could more strictly be termed in the truest sense ‘the life of a beautiful soul.’ The author has done well in presenting to English readers this singularly graceful biography, in which all who can appreciate genuine simplicity and nobleness of Christian character will find to admire and little or nothing to condemn._”――SATURDAY REVIEW.

“_It would indeed have been a deplorable omission had so exquisite a biography been by any neglect lost to English readers, and had character so perfect in its simple and complete devotion been withheld from our admiration.... But we have dwelt too long already on this fascinating book, and must now leave it to our readers._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

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=HENRI PERREYVE.= By A. GRATRY, Prêtre de l’Oratoire, Professeur de Morale Evangélique à la Sorbonne, et Membre de l’Académie Française. Translated, by special permission, by the Author of “A Dominican Artist,” “Life of S. Francis de Sales,” &c., &c. With Portrait. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

“_... A most touching and powerful piece of biography, interspersed with profound reflections on personal religion, and on the prospects of Christianity.... For priests this book is a treasure. The moral of it is the absolute necessity of ‘recollectedness’ to the higher, and especially the true priestly life._”――CHURCH REVIEW.

“_The works of the translator of Henri Perreyve ♦from, for the most part, a series of saintly biographies which have obtained a larger share of popularity than is generally accorded to books of this description.... The description of his last days will probably be read with greater interest than any other part of the book; presenting as it does an example of fortitude under suffering, and resignation, when cutoff so soon after entering upon a much-coveted and useful career, of rare occurrence in this age of self-assertion. This is, in fact, the essential teaching of the entire volume.... The translator of the Abbé Gratry’s work has done well in giving English readers an opportunity of profiting by its lessons._”――MORNING POST.

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“_Those who take a pleasure in reading a beautiful account of a beautiful character would do well to procure the Life of ‘Henri Perreyve.’... We would especially recommend the book for the perusal of English priests, who may learn many a holy lesson from the devoted spirit in which the subject of the memoir gave himself up to the duties of his sacred office, and to this cultivation of the graces with which he was endowed._”――CHURCH TIMES.

“_It is easy to see that Henri Perreyve, Professor of Moral Theology at the Sorbonne, was a Roman Catholic priest of no ordinary type. With comparatively little of what Protestants call superstition, with great courage and sincerity, with a nature singularly guileless and noble, his priestly vocation, although pursued, according to his biographer, with unbridled zeal, did not stifle his human sympathies and aspirations. He could not believe that his faith compelled him ‘to renounce sense and reason,’ or that a priest was not free to speak, act, and think like other men. Indeed, the Abbé Gratry makes a kind of apology for his friend’s free-speaking in this respect, and endeavours to explain it. Perreyve was the beloved disciple of Lacordaire, who left him all his manuscripts, notes, and papers, and he himself attained the position of a great pulpit orator._”――PALL MALL GAZETTE.

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“_It is written with the delicacy, freshness, and absence of all affectation which characterised the former works by the same hand, and which render these books so very much more pleasant reading than are religious biographies in general. The character of S. Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, is a charming one; a more simple, pure, and pious life it would be difficult to conceive. His unaffected humility, his freedom from dogmatism in an age when dogma was placed above religion, his freedom from bigotry in an age of persecution, were alike admirable._”――STANDARD.

“_The author of ‘A Dominican Artist,’ in writing this new life of the wise and loving Bishop and Prince of Geneva, has aimed less at historical or ecclesiastical investigation than at a vivid and natural representation of the inner mind and life of the subject of his biography, as it can be traced in his own writings and in those of his most intimate and affectionate friends. The book is written with the grave and quiet grace which characterises the productions of its author, and cannot fail to please those readers who can sympathise with all forms of goodness and devotion to noble purpose._”――WESTMINSTER REVIEW.

“_A book which contains the record of a life as sweet, pure, and noble as any man by divine help, granted to devout sincerity of soul, has been permitted to live upon earth. The example of this gentle but resolute and energetic spirit, wholly dedicated to the highest conceivable good, offering itself, with all the temporal uses of mental existence, to the service of infinite and eternal beneficence, is extremely touching.... It is a book worthy of acceptance._”――DAILY NEWS.

“_It is not a translation or adaptation, but an original work, and a very charming portrait of one of the most winning characters in the long gallery of Saints. And it is a matter of thankfulness to us to find a distinctively Anglican writer setting forward the good Bishop’s work among Protestants, as a true missionary task to reclaim souls from deadly error, and bring them back to the truth._”――UNION REVIEW.

=THE SPIRIT OF S. FRANCIS DE SALES, BISHOP AND PRINCE OF GENEVA.= Translated from the French by the Author of “The Life of S. Francis de Sales,” “A Dominican Artist,” &c., &c. Crown 8vo. 6s.

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“_It is a collection of epistolary correspondence of rare interest and excellence. With those who have read the Life, there cannot but have been a strong desire to know more of so beautiful a character as S. Francis de Sales. He was a model of Christian saintliness and religious virtue for all time, and one everything relating to whom, so great were the accomplishments of his mind as well as the devotion of his heart, has a charm which delights, instructs, and elevates._”――CHURCH HERALD.

“_A few months back we had the pleasure of welcoming the Life of S. Francis de Sales. Here is the promised sequel:――the ‘Selection from his Spiritual Letters’ then announced:――and a great boon it will be to many. The Letters are addressed to people of all sorts:――to men and to women:――to laity and to ecclesiastics, to people living in the world, or at court, and to the inmates of Religious Houses. And what an idea it gives one of the widely ramifying influence of one good man and of the untiring diligence of a man, who in spite of all his external duties, could find or make the time for all these letters. We hope that with our readers it may be totally needless to urge such a volume on their notice._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

=CONSOLATIO=; or, Comfort for the Afflicted. Edited by the Rev. C. E. KENNAWAY. With a Preface by SAMUEL WILBERFORCE, D.D., Lord Bishop of Winchester. New Edition. Small 8vo. 3s. 6d.

“_A charming collection from the best writers of passages suitable in seasons of sickness and afflictions._”――CHURCH REVIEW.

“_A very valuable collection of extracts from writers of every school. The volume is an elegant one._”――CHURCH TIMES.

“_A very useful collection of devotional extracts from the histories of good men of very various schools of thought._”――JOHN BULL.

“_We are bound to admire the extreme beauty and the warm devotion of the majority of passages here collected to smooth the soul that sorrows, even though penned by men from whom we differ so much in doctrine._”――ROCK.

“_A work which we feel sure will find a welcome and also prove a soothing guest in the chamber of many an invalid._”――RECORD.

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“_Its practical usefulness to the parochial clergy is proved by the acceptance it has already received at their hands, and no faithful parish priest, who is working in real earnest for the extension of spiritual instruction amongst all classes of his flock will rise from the perusal of its pages without having obtained some valuable hints as to the best mode of bringing home our Church’s system to the hearts of his people._”――NATIONAL CHURCH.

=THE SHEPHERD OF HERMAS.= Translated into English, with an Introduction and Notes. By CHARLES H. HOOLE, M.A., Senior Student of Christ Church, Oxford. Small 8vo. 4s. 6d.

=HYMNS AND POEMS FOR THE SICK AND SUFFERING.= In connexion with the Service for the Visitation of the Sick. Selected from various Authors. Edited by T. V. FOSBERY, M.A., Vicar of St. Giles’s, Reading. New Edition. Small 8vo. 3s. 6d.

=THE “DAMNATORY CLAUSES” OF THE ATHANASIAN CREED RATIONALLY EXPLAINED, IN A LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P.= By the Rev. MALCOLM MACCOLL, M.A., Rector of St. George, Botolph Lane. Crown 8vo. 6s.

=A GLOSSARY OF ECCLESIASTICAL TERMS.= Containing Brief Explanations of Words used in Theology, Liturgiology, Chronology, Law, Architecture, Antiquities, Symbolism, Greek Hierology and Mediæval Latin; together with some account of Titles of our Lord, Emblems of Saints, Hymns, Orders, Heresies, Ornaments, Offices, Vestments and Ceremonial, and Miscellaneous Subjects. By Various Writers. Edited by the Rev. ORBY SHIPLEY, M.A. Crown 8vo. 18s.

=ANCIENT HYMNS.= From the Roman Breviary. For Domestic Use every Morning and Evening of the Week, and on the Holy Days of the Church. To which are added, Original Hymns, principally of Commemoration and Thanksgiving for Christ’s Holy Ordinances. By RICHARD MANT, D.D., sometime Lord Bishop of Down and Connor. New Edition. Small 8vo. 5s.

“_Real poetry wedded to words that breathe the purest and the sweetest spirit of Christian devotion. The translation from the old Latin Hymnal are close and faithful renderings._”――STANDARD.

“_As a Hymn writer Bishop Mant deservedly occupies a prominent place in the esteem of Churchmen, and we doubt not that many will be the readers who will welcome this new edition of his translations and original compositions._”――ENGLISH CHURCHMAN.

“_A new edition of Bishop Mant’s ‘Ancient Hymns from the Roman Breviary’ forms a handsome little volume, and it is interesting to compare some of these translations with the more modern ones of our own day. While we have no hesitation in awarding the palm to the latter, the former are an evidence of the earliest germs of that yearning of the devout mind for something better than Tate and Brady, and which know so richly supplied._”――CHURCH TIMES.

“_This valuable manual will be of great assistance to all compilers of Hymn-Books. The translations are graceful, clear, and forcible, and the original hymns deserve the highest praise. Bishop Mant has caught the very spirit of true psalmody, his metre flows musically, and there is a tuneful ring in his verses which especially adapts them for congregational singing._”――ROCK.

=YESTERDAY, TO-DAY, AND FOR EVER=: A Poem in Twelve Books. By E. H. BICKERSTETH, M.A., Vicar of Christ Church, Hampstead. Seventh Edition. Small 8vo. 6s.

“_The most simple, the richest, and the most perfect sacred poem which recent days have produced._”――MORNING ADVERTISER.

“_A poem worth reading, worthy of attentive study; full of noble thoughts, beautiful diction, and high imagination._”――STANDARD.

“_Mr. Bickersteth writes like a man who cultivates at once reverence and earnestness of thought._”――GUARDIAN.

“_In these light miscellany days there is a spiritual refreshment in the spectacle of man girding up the loins of his mind to the task of producing a genuine epic. And it is true poetry. There is a definiteness, a crispness about it, which in these moist, viewy, hazy days ♦is no less invigorating than novel._”――EDINBURGH DAILY REVIEW.

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=THE TWO BROTHERS=, and other Poems. By EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH, M.A., Vicar of Christ Church, Hampstead, and Chaplain to the Bishop of Ripon, Author of “Yesterday, To-day, and for Ever.” Second Edition. Small 8vo. 6s.

=A HANDY BOOK OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL DILAPIDATIONS ACT, 1871.= With the Amendment Act, 1872. With Remarks on the Qualification and Practice of Diocesan Surveyors. By EDWARD G. BRUTON, F.R.I.B.A., and Diocesan Surveyor, Oxford. Crown 8vo. 5s.

=STONES OF THE TEMPLE; OR, LESSONS FROM THE FABRIC AND FURNITURE OF THE CHURCH.= By WALTER FIELD, M.A., F.S.A., Vicar of Godmersham. With numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

“_Anyone who wishes for simple information on the subjects of Church-architecture and furniture, cannot do better than consult ‘Stones of the Temple.’ Mr. Field modestly disclaims any intention of supplanting the existing regular treatises, but his book shows an amount of research, and a knowledge of what he is talking about, which make it practically useful as well as pleasant. The wood-cuts are numerous and some of them very pretty._”――GRAPHIC.

“_A very charming book, by the Rev. Walter Field, who was for years Secretary of one of the leading Church Societies. Mr. Field has a loving reverence for the beauty of the domus mansionalis Dei, as the old law books called the Parish Church.... Thoroughly sound in Church feeling, Mr. Field has chosen the medium of a tale to embody real incidents illustrative of the various portions of his subject. There is no attempt at elaboration of the narrative, which, indeed, is rather a string of anecdotes than a story, but each chapter brings home to the mind its own lesson, and each is illustrated with some very interesting engravings.... The work will properly command a hearty reception from Churchmen. The footnotes are occasionally most valuable, and are always pertinent, and the text is sure to be popular with young folks for Sunday reading._”――STANDARD.

“_Mr. Field’s chapters on brasses, chancel screens, crosses, encaustic tiles, mural paintings, porches and pavements, are agreeably written, and people with a turn for Ritualism will no doubt find them edifying. The volume, as we have said, is not without significance for readers who are unable to sympathize with the object of the writer. The illustrations of Church-architecture and Church ornaments are very attractive._”――PALL MALL GAZETTE.

=A SHADOW OF DANTE.= Being an Essay towards Studying Himself, his World, and his Pilgrimage. By MARIA FRANCESCA ROSSETTI. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d.

“_The ‘Shadow of Dante’ is a well-conceived and inviting volume, designed to recommend the ‘Divina Commedia’ to English readers, and to facilitate the study and comprehension of its contents._”――ATHRNÆUM.

“_And it is in itself a true work of art, a whole finely conceived, and carried out with sustained power,――one of those reproductions and adumbrations of great works, in which mere servile copying disappears, and which are only possible to a mind which, however inferior to its original, is yet of the same order and temperament, with an unusual faculty for taking the impressions of that original and reflecting them undimmed. It is much to say of a volume like this. But it is not too much to say, when, after going through it, we consider the thorough knowledge of the subject shown in it, the patient skill with which the intricate and puzzling arrangements of the poem, full of what we call the conceits and puzzles of the contemporary philosophy, are unravelled and made intelligible; the discrimination and high principle with which so ardent a lover of the great poet blames his excesses; the high and noble Christian faith which responds to his; and, lastly, the gift of eloquent speech, keen, rich, condensed, expressive, which seems to have passed into the writer from the loving study of the greatest master in his own tongue of all the inimitable harmonies of language――the tenderest, the deepest, the most awful._”――GUARDIAN.

“_The work introduces us not merely to the author’s life and the political and ecclesiastical conjunctures under which he lived, but to the outlines of the Catholicised systems of ethics, astronomy, and geography which he interpreted in classifying his spirits and assigning them their dwellings; as also to the drift of his leading allegories; and finally, to the general conduct of his poem――which is amply illustrated by citations from the most literal verse translations. We find the volume furnished with useful diagrams of the Dantesque universe, of Hell, Purgatory, and the ‘Rose of the Blessed,’ and adorned with a beautiful group of the likenesses of the poet, and with symbolic figures (on the binding) in which the taste and execution of Mr. D. G. Rossetti will be recognised. The exposition appears to us remarkably well arranged and digested; the author’s appreciation of Dante’s religious sentiments and opinions is peculiarly hearty, and her style refreshingly independent and original._”――PALL MALL GAZETTE.

“_It bears traces throughout of having been due to a patient, loving and appreciative study of the great poet, as he is exhibited, not merely in the ‘Divina Commedia,’ but in his other writings. The result has been a book which is not only delightful in itself to read, but is admirably adapted as an encouragement to those students who wish to obtain a preliminary survey of the land before they attempt to follow Dante through his long and arduous pilgrimage. Of all poets Dante stands most in need of such assistance as this book offers._”――SATURDAY REVIEW.

=PARISH MUSINGS; OR, DEVOTIONAL POEMS.= By JOHN S. B. MONSELL, LL.D., Rural Dean, and Rector of St. Nicholas, Guildford. Fine Edition. Small 8vo. 5s. Cheap Edition, 18mo, limp cloth, 1s. 6d.; or in Cover, 1s.

=THE LIFE OF JUSTIFICATION.= A Series of Lectures delivered in Substance at All Saints’, Margaret Street, in Lent, 1870. By the Rev. GEORGE BODY, B.A., Rector of Kirkby Misperton. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d.

“_On the whole we have rarely met with a more clear, intelligible and persuasive statement of the truth as regards the important topics on which the volume treats. Sermon II. in particular, will strike every one by its eloquence and beauty, but we scarcely like to specify it, lest in praising it we should seem to disparage the other portions of this admirable little work._”――CHURCH TIMES.

“_These discourses show that their author’s position is due to something more and higher than mere fluency, gesticulation, and flexibility of voice. He appears as having drunk deeply at the fountain of St. Augustine, and as understanding how to translate the burning words of that mighty genius into the current language of to-day._”――UNION REVIEW.

“_There is real power in these sermons:――power, real power, and plenty of it.... There is such a moral veraciousness about him, such a profound and over-mastering belief that Christ has proved a bona-fide cure for unholiness, and such an intensity of eagerness to lead others to seek and profit by that means of attaining the true sanctity which alone can enter Heaven――that we wonder not at the crowds which hang upon his preaching, nor at the success of his fervid appeals to the human conscience. If any one doubts our verdict, let him buy this volume. No one will regret its perusal._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

=SERMONS ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS.= By DANIEL MOORE, M.A., Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, and Vicar of Holy Trinity, Paddington; Author of Hulsean Lectures on “The Age and the Gospel,” “Aids to Prayer,” &c. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

“_We do not wonder at Mr. Moore’s long continued popularity with so many hearers; there is so much painstaking and so much genuine desire to discharge his duty as a preacher visible through all the volume. What we miss is the deeper theology, and the spontaneous flow of teaching as from a spring which cannot help flowing, which some of our preachers happily exhibit. But the Sermons may be recommended, or we would not notice them._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

“_Rarely have we met with a better volume of Sermons.... Orthodox, affectionate, and earnest, these Sermons exhibit at the same time much research, and are distinguished by an elegance and finish of style often wanting in these days of rapid writing and continual preaching._”――JOHN BULL.

“_Sermons like those of Mr. Moore are, however, still of comparative rarity――sermons in which we meet with doctrine which cannot be gainsaid; with a knowledge of the peculiar circumstances of his hearers, which nothing but accurate observation and long experience can secure, and a peculiar felicity of style which many will envy, but to which it is the lot of few to attain._”――CHRISTIAN OBSERVER.

“_We have had real pleasure, however, in reading these sermons. Here are most of the elements of a preacher’s power and usefulness: skilful arrangement of the subject, admirable clearness of style, earnestness, both of thought and language, and the prime qualification of all, ‘in doctrine, uncorruptness.’_”――LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW.

=THE KNIGHT OF INTERCESSION, AND OTHER POEMS.= By the Rev. S. J. STONE, M.A., Pembroke College, Oxford. Second Edition. Small 8vo. 6s.

“_Mr. Stone has now given to the public a collection of poems, widely different in form, which enable us to measure more accurately his powers, not merely as a hymnist, but as a poet; and though we would not injure a growing reputation by overstating his merits, yet we can safely say that his volume contains much genuine poetry which will be read with unqualified pleasure.... It would be ungrateful of us to put down this volume without expressing the great pleasure it has afforded us, and our high appreciation of the valuable services which its author is rendering to the Church._”――CHURCH BELLS.

“_... We all know him so well as the author of the beautiful processional hymn ‘The Church’s One Foundation,’ the Lenten hymn ‘Weary of Earth,’ and other favourites, that we were fully prepared for the pleasure that awaited us in perusing this volume._”――CHURCH OPINION.

“_The extracts we have thus given, differing as they do alike in subject and in style, present fair specimens of the varied interest of the volume, and of the poetic powers of its author. Most of our readers, we think, will agree with us that the publication is well-timed, and that it has much in it that is both pleasant and profitable reading._”――CHURCH HERALD.

“_In the ‘Knight of Intercession’ and other poems we have the outpourings of a pure and devotional spirit, in language of unassuming and yet genuine poetry, rising at times, naturally and without effort, to a quiet but real beauty._”――SCOTSMAN.

“_Mr. Stone, it is clear, has studied all the best models, and has been influenced by them; but he maintains through all a distinctly individual note, and gives us real music.... There are true touches in the Idylls, and some of the poems on pictures are remarkably expressive and skilful, though nothing is more difficult than the proper working out of such themes. We like some of the sonnets――some of them are exceptionally sweet and finished._”――NONCONFORMIST.

=THE ANNUAL REGISTER=: A Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad, for the Year 1872. 8vo. 18s.

⁂ _All the Volumes of the New Series from 1863 to 1872 may be had, 18s. each._

“_Well edited, excellent type, good paper, and in all respects admirably got up. Its review of affairs, Home, Colonial, and Foreign, it fair, concise, and complete._”――MINING QUARTERLY.

“_Solidly valuable, as well as interesting._”――STANDARD.

“_Comprehensive and well executed._”――SPECTATOR.

“_The whole work being well-written, and compiled with care and judgment, it is interesting reading for the present day, will be more useful as a work of reference in future years, and will be most valuable of all to readers of another generation. Every student of history knows the worth, for the time that it covers, of the old ‘Annual Register,’ and this new series is better done and more comprehensive than its predecessor._”――EXAMINER.

“_This volume of the new series of the ‘Annual Register’ seems well and carefully compiled. The narrative is accurate, and it is obvious that the writers have striven to be impartial._”――ATHENÆUM.

“_The whole of the compilation, however, is readable, and some of its more important parts are very well done. Such is, among other historical portions, the account of the situation in France before and at the beginning of the war. The narrative of the military events is clear, comprehensive, and attractive._”――NATION (NEW YORK).

=HISTORICAL NARRATIVES.= From the Russian. By H. C. ROMANOFF, Author of “Sketches of the Rites and Customs of the Greco-Russian Church,” &c. Crown 8vo. 6s.

=PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS FOR THE HOLY COMMUNION.= With a Preface by C. J. ELLICOTT, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. With rubrics and borders in red. Royal 32mo. 2s. 6d.

“_Devout beauty is the special character of this new manual, and it ought to be a favourite. Rarely has it happened to us to meet with so remarkable a combination of thorough practicalness with that almost poetic warmth which is the highest flower of genuine devotion. It deserves to be placed along with the manual edited by Mr. Keble so shortly before his decease, not as superseding it, for the scope of the two is different, but to be taken along with it. Nothing can exceed the beauty and fulness of the devotions before communion in Mr. Keble’s book, but we think that in some points the devotions here given after Holy Communion are even superior to it._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

“_Bishop Ellicott has edited a book of ‘Prayers and Meditations for the Holy Communion,’ which, among Eucharistic manuals, has its own special characteristic. The Bishop recommends it to the newly confirmed, to the tender-hearted and the devout, as having been compiled by a youthful person, and as being marked by a peculiar ‘freshness.’ Having looked through the volume, we have pleasure in seconding the recommendations of the good Bishop. We know of no more suitable manual for the newly confirmed, and nothing more likely to engage the sympathies of youthful hearts. There is a union of the deepest spirit of devotion, a rich expression of experimental life, with a due recognition of the objects of faith, such as is not always to be found, but which characterises this manual in an eminent degree._”――CHURCH REVIEW.

“_The Bishop of Gloucester’s imprimatur is attached to ‘Prayers and Meditations for the Holy Communion,’ intended as a manual for the recently confirmed, nicely printed, and theologically sound._”――CHURCH TIMES.

“_Among the supply of Eucharistic Manuals, one deserves special attention and commendation. ‘Prayers and Meditations’ merits the Bishop of Gloucester’s epithets of ‘warm, devout, and fresh.’ And it is thoroughly English Church besides._”――GUARDIAN.

“_We are by no means surprised that Bishop Ellicott should have been so much struck with this little work, on accidentally seeing it in manuscript, as to urge its publication, and to preface it with his commendation. The devotion which it breathes is truly fervent, and the language attractive, and as proceeding from a young person the work is altogether not a little striking._”――RECORD.

=THE PRAYER BOOK INTERLEAVED=; With Historical Illustrations and Explanatory Notes arranged parallel to the Text. By the Rev. W. M. CAMPION, D.D., Fellow and Tutor of Queen’s College, and Rector of St. Botolph’s, and the Rev. W. J. BEAMONT, M.A., late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. With a Preface by the LORD BISHOP OF ELY. Sixth Edition. Small 8vo. 7s. 6d.

=EIGHT LECTURES ON THE MIRACLES.= Being the Bampton Lectures for 1865. By J. B. MOZLEY, D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity, and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. Third Edition, Revised. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

=CATECHESIS; OR, CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION PREPARATORY TO CONFIRMATION AND FIRST COMMUNION.= By CHARLES WORDSWORTH, D.C.L., Bishop of St. Andrew’s. New Edition. Small 8vo. 2s.

=A THEORY OF HARMONY.= Founded on the Tempered Scale. With Questions and Exercises for the Use of Students. By JOHN STAINER, Mus. Doc., M.A., Magdalene College, Oxford, Organist to St. Paul’s Cathedral. Royal 8vo. 7s. 6d.

“_It is the first work of its class that needs no apology for its introduction, as it is really much needed especially by teachers, who would fail without the aid of its principles to account for many of the effects in modern music, used in direct opposition to the teaching of the schools. It is difficult, if not impossible, to give a more elaborate description of a book destined to effect an entire change in musical teaching without entering into details that could not but prove uninteresting to the general readers, while to the musician and amateur, the possession of the book itself is recommended as a valuable confirmation of ideas that exist to a large extent in the minds of every one who has ever thought about music, and who desires to see established a more uniform basis of study. The great and leading characteristic of the work is its logical reasoning and definitions, a character not possessed by any previous book on the subject, and for this Dr. Stainer’s theory is certain to gain ground, and be the means of opening an easy and pleasant path in a road hitherto beset with the thorns and briars of perplexing technicalities._”――MORNING POST.

“_Dr. Stainer is a learned musician, and his book supplies a manual of information as well as a rich repository of musical erudition in the form of classical quotations from the great masters._”――JOHN BULL.

“_Dr. Stainer, in his thoughtful book, sees clearly of amalgamating opposing systems in order to found a theory of harmony. He bases his work on the tempered scale, and he developes and illustrates his theory by questions and exercises for the use of students. His opening exposition of the rudiments of music is clear: when he reaches the regions of harmony he comes on debateable ground._”――ATHENÆUM.

“_To the student perplexed and chained down by the multitudinous rules of the old theorists, we cannot give better comfort than to advise him to read forthwith Dr. Stainer’s ingenious and thoughtful book. It is exceedingly well got up, and from the clearness of the type used, very easy and pleasant to read._”――CHOIR.

=CHURCH ORGANS=: their Position and Construction. With an Appendix containing some Account of the Mediæval Organ Case still existing at Old Radnor, South Wales. By FREDERICK HEATHCOTE SUTTON, M.A., Vicar of Theddingworth. With Illustrations. Imperial folio. 6s. 6d.

=MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.= By HENRY FRANCIS LYTE, M.A. New Edition. Small 8vo. 5s.

=BIBLE READINGS FOR FAMILY PRAYER.= By the Rev. W. H. RIDLEY, M.A., Rector of Hambleden. Crown 8vo.

Old Testament――Genesis and Exodus. 2s.

New Testament, { St. Luke and St. John. 2s. { St. Matthew and St. Mark. 2s.

The Four Gospels, in one volume. 3s. 6d.

=ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM’S LITURGY.= Translated by H. C. ROMANOFF, Author of “Sketches of the Rites and Customs of the Greco-Russian Church,” &c. With Illustrations. Square crown 8vo. 4s. 6d.

=NOTITIA EUCHARISTICA.= A Commentary, Explanatory, Doctrinal, and Historical, on the Order of the Administration of the Lord’s Supper, or Holy Communion, according to the Use of the Church of England. By W. E. SCUDAMORE, M.A., Rector of Ditchingham, and formerly Fellow of S. John’s College, Cambridge. 8vo. 28s.

=WORDS TO TAKE WITH US.= A Manual of Daily and Occasional Prayers, for Private and Common Use. With Plain Instructions and Counsels on Prayer. By W. E. SCUDAMORE, M.A., Rector of Ditchingham, and formerly Fellow of S. John’s College, Cambridge. New Edition. Revised. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d.

“_‘Words to Take with Us,’ by W. E. Scudamore, is one of the best manuals of daily and occasional prayers we have seen. At once orthodox and practical, sufficiently personal, and yet not perplexingly minute in its details, it is calculated to be of inestimable value in many a household._”――JOHN BULL.

“_We are again pleased to see an old friend on the editorial table, in a third edition of Mr. Scudamore’s well-known Manual of Prayers. The special proper collects for each day of the week, as well as those for the several seasons of the Christian year, have been most judiciously selected. The compiler moreover, while recognising the full benefits to be derived from the Book of Common Prayer, has not feared to draw largely from the equally invaluable writings of ancient Catholicity. The preface is a systematic arrangement of instructions in prayer and meditation._”――CHURCH REVIEW.

=THE HOME LIFE OF JESUS OF NAZARETH AND OTHER SERMONS.= By the Rev. AUGUSTUS GURNEY, M.A., Vicar of Wribbenhall, Kidderminster. Crown 8vo. 5s.

=A CHURCH HISTORY OF THE FIRST SEVEN CENTURIES=, to the Close of the Sixth General Council. By MILO MAHAN, D.D., sometime S. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the General Theological Seminary, New York. 8vo. 15s.

=OUR MOTHER CHURCH=: being Simple Talk on High Topics. By ANNE MERCIER. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

“_We have rarely come across a book dealing with an old subject in a healthier and, as far as may be, more original manner, while yet thoroughly practical, than ‘Our Mother Church,’ by Mrs. Jerome Mercier. It is intended for and admirably adapted to the use of girls. Thoroughly reverent in its tone, and bearing in every page marks of learned research, it is yet easy of comprehension, and explains ecclesiastical terms with the accuracy of a lexicon without the accompanying dulness. It is to be hoped that the book will attain to the large circulation it justly merits._”――JOHN BULL.

“_We have never seen a book for girls of its class which commends itself to us more particularly than ‘Our Mother Church’ by Mrs. Jerome Mercier. The author, who is the wife of an earnest parish priest of the Anglican school, near London, calls her work ‘simple talk on great subjects,’ and calls it by a name that describes it almost as completely as we could do in a longer notice than we can spare the volume. Here are the headings of the chapters:――‘The Primitive Church,’ ‘Primitive Places and Modes of Worship,’ ‘The Early English Church,’ ‘The Monastic Orders,’ ‘The Friars,’ ‘A Review of Church History,’ ‘The Prayer Book,’ (four chapters), ‘Symbolism,’ ‘Church Architecture,’ ‘Windows and Bells,’ ‘Church Music,’ ‘Church Work.’ No one can fail to comprehend the beautifully simple, devout, and appropriate language in which Mrs. Mercier embodies what she has to say; and for the facts with which she deals she has taken good care to have their accuracy assured._”――STANDARD.

“_The plan of this pleasant-looking book is excellent. It is a kind of Mrs. Markham on the Church of England, written especially for girls, and we shall not be surprised to find it become a favourite in schools.... It is really a conversational hand-book to the English Church’s history, doctrine, and ritual, complied by a very diligent reader from some of the best modern Anglican sources._”――ENGLISH CHURCHMAN.

=THE DIVINITY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST=; being the Bampton Lectures for 1866. By HENRY PARRY LIDDON, D.D., D.C.L., Canon of St. Paul’s, and Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo. 5s.

=SERMONS PREACHED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.= By HENRY PARRY LIDDON, D.D., D.C.L., Canon of St. Paul’s, and Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford. Fifth Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. 5s.

=SOME ELEMENTS OF RELIGION.= Lent Lectures. By HENRY PARRY LIDDON, D.D., D.C.L., Canon of St. Paul’s, and Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford. Crown 8vo. 5s.

=HOUSEHOLD THEOLOGY=: A Handbook of Religious Information respecting the Holy Bible, the Prayer Book, the Church, the Ministry, Divine Worship, the Creeds, &c., &c. By JOHN HENRY BLUNT, M.A. New Edition. Small 8vo. 3s. 6d.

=LIBER PRECUM PUBLICARUM ECCLESIÆ ANGLICANÆ.= A GULIELMO BRIGHT, A.M., et PETRO GOLDSMITH MEDD, A.M., Presbyteris, Collegii Universitatis in Acad. Oxon. Sociis, Latine redditus. New Edition, with all the Rubrics in red. Small 8vo. 6s.

=THE PSALMS.= Translated from the Hebrew. With Notes, chiefly Exegetical. By WILLIAM KAY, D.D., Rector of Great Leighs; late Principal of Bishop’s College, Calcutta. 8vo. 12s. 6d.

“_Like a sound Churchman, he reverences Scripture, upholding its authority against sceptics; and he does not denounce such as differ from him in opinion with a dogmatism unhappily too common at the present day. Hence, readers will be disposed to consider his conclusions worthy of attention; or perhaps to adopt them without inquiry. It is superfluous to say that the translation is better and more accurate on the whole than our received one, or that it often reproduces the sense of the original happily._”――ATHENÆUM.

“_Dr. Kay has profound reverence for Divine truth, and exhibits considerable reading, with the power to make use of it._”――BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW.

“_The execution of the work is careful and scholarly._”――UNION REVIEW.

“_To mention the name of Dr. Kay is enough to secure respectful attention to his new translation of the Psalms. It is enriched with exegetical notes containing a wealth of sound learning, closely occasionally, perhaps too closely condensed. Good care is taken of the student not learned in Hebrew; we hope the Doctor’s example will prevent any abuse of this consideration, and stimulate those who profit by it to follow him into the very text of the ancient Revelation._”――JOHN BULL.

=THE ANNOTATED BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER=; being an Historical, Ritual, and Theological Commentary on the Devotional System of the Church of England. Edited by the Rev. JOHN HENRY BLUNT, M.A., F.S.A., Author of “The History of the Reformation,” “Directorium Pastorale,” Editor of “The Dictionary of Theology,” &c. Sixth edition, revised. Imperial 8vo. 36s., or half-bound in morocco, 48s.

=A COMPANION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT.= Being a Plain Commentary on Scripture History, down to the Birth of our Lord. Small 8vo. 3s. 6d.

“_A most admirable Companion to the Old Testament, being far the most concise yet complete commentary on Old Testament history with which we have met. Here are combined orthodoxy and learning, an intelligent and at the same time interesting summary of the leading facts of the sacred story. It should be a text-book in every school, and its value is immensely enhanced by the copious and complete index._”――JOHN BULL.

“_This will be found a very valuable aid to the right understanding of the Bible. It throws the whole Scripture narrative into one from the creation downwards, the author thus condensing Prideaux, Shuckford, and Russell, and in the most reverential manner bringing to his aid the writings of all modern annotators and chronologists. There are no lengthy comments, no visionary theories, nothing speculative; all is plain matter of fact, intelligibly stated. The book is one that should have a wide circulation amongst teachers and students of all denominations._”――BOOKSELLER.

“_Is a very compact summary of the Old Testament narrative, put together so as to explain the connection and bearing of its contents, and written in a very good tone; with a final chapter on the history of the Jews between the Old and New Testaments. It will be found very useful for its purpose. It does not confine itself to merely chronological difficulties, but comments briefly upon the religious bearing of the text also._”――GUARDIAN.

“_The handbook before us is so full and satisfactory, considering its compass, and sets forth the history of the old covenant with such conscientious minuteness, that it cannot fail to prove a godsend to candidates for examination in the Rudimenta Religionis as well as in the corresponding school at Cambridge.... In one of our dioceses the Scripture subjects for diocesan inspection this year included ‘the lives of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the twelve Patriarchs,’ and teachers were warned that the higher classes in the schools would be expected to evince a knowledge gathered from the source and not any secondary channels. But really we have tested the second book of this work with an eye to ascertaining whether a mastery of it would have served the teacher or pupil’s purpose; and our deliberate opinion is that it would, so careful is the survey, and so very rare the omission of a single point that is of any historical or doctrinal importance.... Throughout his work the writer of this ‘companion,’ ‘commentary,’ or ‘handbook,’ exhibits at the same time extensive research into the best sources of information and enlightenment as to the sacred history, and an independent, though cautious, judgment in his choice between conflicting theories and explanations._”――ENGLISH CHURCHMAN.

=FABLES RESPECTING THE POPES OF THE MIDDLE AGES.= A Contribution to Ecclesiastical History. By JOHN J. IGN. VON DÖLLINGER. Translated, with Introduction and Appendices, by ALFRED PLUMMER, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Oxford. 8vo. 14s.

=SKETCHES OF THE RITES AND CUSTOMS OF THE GRECO-RUSSIAN CHURCH.= By H. C. ROMANOFF. With an Introductory Notice by the Author of “The Heir of Redclyffe.” Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

“_The twofold object of this work is ‘to present the English with correct descriptions of the ceremonies of the Greco-Russian Church, and at the same time with pictures of domestic life in Russian homes, especially those of the clergy and the middle class of nobles;’ and, beyond question, the author’s labour has been so far successful that, whilst her Church scenes may be commended as a series of most dramatic and picturesque tableaux, her social sketches enable us to look at certain points beneath the surface of Russian life, and materially enlarge our knowledge of a country concerning which we have still a very great deal to learn._”――ATHENÆUM.

“_The volume before us is anything but a formal liturgical treatise. It might be more valuable to a few scholars if it were, but it would certainly fail to obtain perusal at the hands of the great majority of those whom the writer, not unreasonably, hopes to attract by the narrative style she has adopted. What she has set before us is a series of brief outlines, which, by their simple effort to clothe the information given us in a living garb, reminds us of a once popular childs’ book which we remember a generation ago, called ‘Sketches of Human Manners.’_”――CHURCH TIMES.

=THE ARGUMENT DELIVERED BEFORE THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.= By ARCHIBALD JOHN STEPHENS, LL.D., one of Her Majesty’s Counsel in the case of THOMAS BYARD SHEPPARD against WILLIAM EARLY BENNETT, Clerk. With an Appendix containing their Lordships’ Judgment. 8vo. 9s.

=SERMONS ON CERTAIN OF THE LESS PROMINENT FACTS AND REFERENCES IN SACRED STORY.= By HENRY MELVILL, B.D., late Canon of St. Paul’s, and Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen. New Edition. Two vols. Crown 8vo. 5s. each.

“_We are glad to see this new edition of what we have always considered to be Melvill’s best sermons, because in them we have his best thoughts.... Many of these sermons are the strongest arguments yet adduced for internal evidence of the veracity of the Scriptural narratives._”――STANDARD.

“_Many who admire elegant phraseology, and the other now rarely exhibited constituents of pulpit eloquence, will be glad to have in a convenient shape a judicious selection of Canon Melvill’s sermons. Mr. Melvill was one of the few really successful preachers of our day._”――EXAMINER.

“_The sermons of the lamented Melvill are too well known to require any commendation from us. We have here all the power of rhetoric, and the grace and beauty of style, for which the author has been distinguished, and which have contributed to render him a model to preachers, and given him a representative position in the history of the English pulpit._”――WEEKLY REVIEW.

“_Polished, classical, and winning, these sermons bear the marks of literary labour. A study of them will aid the modern preacher to refine and polish his discourses, and to add to the vigour which is now the fashion the graces of chastened eloquence and winning rhetoric._”――ENGLISH CHURCHMAN.

=SELECTION FROM THE SERMONS PREACHED DURING THE LATTER YEARS OF HIS LIFE, IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF BARNES, AND IN THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. PAUL’S.= By HENRY MELVILL, B.D., late Canon of St. Paul’s, and Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen. Two vols. Crown 8vo. 5s. each.

“_Melvill’s chief characteristic was humility, that truest mark of real nobility of soul and of genuine genius; and his sole actuating principle in life was devotion to duty――duty to God and duty to man, and never were the two more beautifully blended together than in him. ‘While the pure truths of the Gospel,’ observes his biographer in the memoir prefixed to these sermons, ‘flowed so persuasively from his lips, the pure spirit of Christianity ever reigned in his heart, and the purest charity influenced his every thought and every action.’... The style of Canon Melvill’s sermons is rather Ciceronian than Demosthenic, rather splendid and measured than impetuous and fervid._”――STANDARD.

“_Two other volumes of the late Canon Melvill’s sermons contain forty discourses preached by him in his later years, and they are prefaced by a short memoir of one of the worthiest and most impressive preachers of recent times._”――EXAMINER.

“_These outlines contain probably the last specimens of the work of a great master in the art of preaching the Gospel. In the sermons of Henry Melvill there are a certain dignity and elevation of style and handling which belong rather to the past than to the present.... There are in the sermons before us all Melvill’s wonted grace of diction, strength of reasoning, and aptness of illustration._”――WEEKLY REVIEW.

=SERMONS.= By HENRY MELVILL, B.D., late Canon of St. Paul’s, and Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen. New Edition. Two vols. Crown 8vo. 5s. each. Sold separately.

“_Messrs. Rivington have published very opportunely, at a time when Churchmen are thinking with satisfaction of the new blood infused into the Chapter of St. Paul’s, sermons by Henry Melvill, who in his day was as celebrated as a preacher as is Canon Liddon now. The sermons are not only couched in elegant language, but are replete with matter which the younger clergy would do well to study._”――JOHN BULL.

“_Henry Melvill’s intellect was large, his imagination brilliant, his ardour intense, and his style strong, fervid, and picturesque. Often he seemed to glow with the inspiration of a prophet._”――AMERICAN QUARTERLY CHURCH REVIEW.

“_It would be easy to quote portions of exceeding beauty and power. It was not, however, the charm of style, nor wealth of words, both which Canon Melvill possessed in so great abundance, that he relied on to win souls; but the power and spirit of Him who said, ‘I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men to Me.’_”――RECORD.

“_Every one who can remember the days when Canon Melvill was the preacher of the day, will be glad to see these four-and-twenty of his sermons so nicely reproduced. His Sermons were all the result of real study and genuine reading, with far more theology in them than those of many who make much more profession of theology. There are sermons here which we can personally remember; it has been a pleasure to us to be reminded of them, and we are glad to see them brought before the present generation. We hope that they may be studied, for they deserve it thoroughly._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

“_Few preachers have had more admirers than the Rev. Henry Melvill, and the new edition of his Sermons, in two volumes, will doubtless find plenty of purchasers. The Sermons abound in thought, and the thoughts are couched in English which is at once elegant in construction and easy to read._”――CHURCH TIMES.

“_The Sermons of Canon Melvill, now republished in two handy volumes, need only to be mentioned to be sure of a hearty welcome. Sound learning, well-weighed words, calm and keen logic, and solemn devoutness, mark the whole series of masterly discourses, which embrace some of the chief doctrines of the Church, and set them forth in clear and Scriptural strength._”――STANDARD.

=VITA ET DOCTRINA JESU CHRISTI=; Or, Meditations on the Life of our Lord. By AVANCINI. In the Original Latin. Adapted to the use of the Church of England by a CLERGYMAN. Imperial 32mo. 2s. 6d.

=THE FIRST BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER OF EDWARD VI.=, and the Ordinal of 1549, together with the Order of the Communion, 1548. Reprinted entire, and Edited by the Rev. HENRY BASKERVILLE WALTON, M.A., late Fellow and Tutor of Merton College. With an Introduction by the Rev. PETER GOLDSMITH MEDD, M.A., Senior Fellow and Tutor of University College, Oxford. Small 8vo. 6s.

“_A volume like this is worth two of Church History. In many respects, indeed, it is the subject of history itself; and with Mr. Medd’s introduction and Mr. Walton’s editorial work we may be said to have both subject and history thereof. The volume should be in the hands of every member of the Church of England: we may say, it should be in those of every student of Church History._”――ATHENÆUM.

“_We welcome the seasonable appearance of this work, which indeed supplies a long-felt want, for ‘the First Book’ has been hitherto accessible to very few.... It is especially important at the present time that the principles of the first Reformers should be understood; and no one can look through this edition without gaining some definite information on that point. We commend this new edition of the First Prayer Book, with its introduction to the study of all that are desirous of understanding the principles of those who originated the reform of our public Services._”――CHURCH NEWS.

“_The more that English Churchmen become acquainted with the Reformed Prayer Book, as our English Divines reformed it, apart from the meddling of foreigners――i.e., the better people become acquainted with ‘Edward VI.’s first book,’ the better both for themselves, and for the English Church at large. We are therefore delighted to welcome this handy and handsome reprint, with which every pains has been taken to make it as accurate as possible._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

“_Mr. Walton deserves the very best thanks of Anglican Churchmen, for putting this most important volume within their reach in so convenient and handsome a form._”――CHURCH REVIEW.

=INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE USE OF CANDIDATES FOR HOLY ORDERS=, And of the Parochial Clergy; with Acts of Parliament relating to the same, and Forms proposed to be used. By CHRISTOPHER HODGSON, M.A., Secretary to the Governors of Queen Anne’s Bounty. Ninth Edition. 8vo. 16s.

=THE GREEK TESTAMENT.= With a Critically Revised Text; a Digest of Various Readings; Marginal References to Verbal and Idiomatic Usage; Prolegomena; and a Critical and Exegetical Commentary. For the use of Theological Students and Ministers. By HENRY ALFORD, D.D., late Dean of Canterbury. New Edition. Four Volumes. 8vo. 102s.

The Volumes are sold separately as follows:――

Vol.   I.――The Four Gospels. 28s. Vol.  II.――Acts to II. Corinthians. 24s. Vol. III.――Galatians to Philemon. 18s. Vol. IV.――Hebrews to Revelation. 32s.

=THE NEW TESTAMENT FOR ENGLISH READERS=: containing the Authorized Version, with a revised English Text; Marginal References; and a Critical and Explanatory Commentary. By HENRY ALFORD, D.D., late Dean of Canterbury. New Edition. Two volumes, or four parts. 8vo. 54s. 6d.

The Volumes are sold separately, as follows:――

Vol. 1, Part  I.――The Three first Gospels. 12s. Vol. 1, Part II.――St. John and the Acts. 10s. 6d. Vol. 2, Part  I.――The Epistles of St. Paul. 16s. Vol. 2, Part II.――Hebrews to Revelation. 8vo. 16s.

=CURIOUS MYTHS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.= By S. BARING-GOULD, M.A., Author of “Post-Mediæval Preachers,” &c. With Illustrations. New Edition. Complete in One Volume. Crown 8vo. 6s.

“_These Essays will be found to have something to satisfy most classes of readers; the lovers of legends proper, the curious in popular delusions, the initiated in Darwinian and Monboddoan theories; and if, in the chapters on Tell and Gellert, we are a little struck with the close following of Dasent’s track, in his preface to the Norse tales, it must be owned that there are chapters――e.g., those on the Divining Rod, the Man in the Moon, and the Seven Sleepers――which present new matter and deserve the praise of independent research._”――QUARTERLY REVIEW.

“_The author, indeed, is sometimes fanciful and overbold in his conclusions; but he conducts us through marvellous ways――ways which he has studied well before he undertook to guide others; and if we do not always acquiesce in his descriptions or arguments, we seldom differ from him without hesitation._”――ATHENÆUM.

“_We have no space to linger longer about a book which, apart from its didactic pretensions, is an exceedingly amusing and interesting collection of old stories and legends of the middle ages._”――PALL MALL GAZETTE.

“_That, on his first visit to the varied field of mediæval mythology, Mr. Baring-Gould should have culled as samples of its richness the most brilliant of the flowers that bloomed in it, is scarcely to be wondered at. But it shows how fertile is the soil when he is enabled to cull from it so goodly a second crop as that which he here presents to us. The myths treated of in the present volume vary in interest――they are all curious and well worth reading._”――NOTES AND QUERIES.

=THE POPE AND THE COUNCIL.= By JANUS. Authorized translation from the German. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

“_A profound and learned treatise, evidently the work of one of the first theologians of the day, discussing with the scientific fulness and precision proper to German investigation, the great doctrinal questions expected to come before the Council, and especially the proposed dogma of Papal Infallibility. There is probably no work in existence that contains at all, still less within so narrow a compass, so complete a record of the origin and growth of the infallibilist theory, and of all the facts of Church history bearing upon it, and that too in a form so clear and concise as to put the argument within the reach of any reader of ordinary intelligence, while the scrupulous accuracy of the writer, and his constant reference to the original authorities for every statement liable to be disputed, makes the monograph as a whole a perfect storehouse of valuable information for the historical or theological student._”――SATURDAY REVIEW.

“_Beginning with a sketch of the errors and contradictions of the Popes, and of the position which, as a matter of history, they held in the early Church, the book proceeds to describe the three great forgeries by which the Papal claims were upheld――the Isidorian decretals, the donation of Constantine, and the decretum of Gratian. The last subject ought to be carefully studied by all who wish to understand the frightful tyranny of a complicated system of laws, devised not for the protection of a people, but as instruments for grinding them to subjection. Then, after an historical outline of the general growth of the Papal power in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the writers enter upon the peculiarly episcopal and clerical question, pointing out how marvellously every little change worked in one direction, invariably tending to throw the rule of the Church into the power of Rome; and how the growth of new institutions, like the monastic orders and the Inquisition, gradually withdrew the conduct of affairs from the Bishops of the Church in general, and consolidated the Papal influence. For all this, however, unless we could satisfy ourselves with a mere magnified table of contents the reader must be referred to the book itself, in which he will find the interest sustained without flagging to the end._”――PALL MALL GAZETTE.

“_In France, in Holland, and in Germany, there has already appeared a multitude of disquisitions on this subject. Among these several are the acknowledged compositions of men of high standing in the Roman Catholic world,――men admittedly entitled to speak with the authority that must attach to established reputation: but not one of them has hitherto produced a work more likely to create a deep impression than the anonymous German publication at the head of this notice. It is not a piece of merely polemical writing, it is a treatise dealing with a large subject in an impressive though partisan manner, a treatise grave in tone, solid in matter, and bristling with forcible and novel illustrations._”――SPECTATOR.

“_Rumour will, no doubt, be busy with its conjectures as to the name which lurks beneath the nom de plume of ‘Janus.’ We do not intend to offer any contribution towards the elucidation of the mystery unless it be a contribution to say that the book bears internal evidence of being the work of a Catholic, and that there are not many Catholics in Europe who could have written it. Taking it all in all, it is no exaggerated praise to characterise it as the most damaging assault on Ultra-montanism that has appeared in modern times. Its learning is copious and complete, yet so admirably arranged that it invariably illustrates without overlaying the argument. The style is clear and simple, and there is no attempt at rhetoric. It is a piece of cool and masterly dissection, all the more terrible for the passionless manner in which the author conducts the operation._”――TIMES.

=LETTERS FROM ROME ON THE COUNCIL.= By QUIRINUS. Reprinted from the “Allgemeine Zeitung.” Authorized Translation. Crown 8vo. 12s.

=FEMALE CHARACTERS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE.= In a Series of Sermons. By the Rev. ISAAC WILLIAMS, B.D., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 5s.

=THE CHARACTERS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.= In a Series of Sermons. By the Rev. ISAAC WILLIAMS, B.D., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. New Edition. Crown 8vo., 5s.

“_This is one of the few volumes of published sermons that we have been able to read with real pleasure. They are written with a chastened elegance of language, and pervaded by a spirit of earnest and simple piety. Mr. Williams is evidently what would be called a very High Churchman. Occasionally his peculiar Church views are apparent; but bating a few passages here and there, these sermons will be read with profit by all ‘who profess and call themselves Christians.’_”――CONTEMPORARY REVIEW.

“_This is a new edition of a very popular――and deservedly popular――work on the biography of the Old Testament history. The characters are ably and profitably analysed, and that by the hand of a master of style and thought.... The principle of selection has been that of prominence; and partly, too, that of significance in the characters so ably delineated. A more masterly analysis of Scriptural characters we never read, nor any which are more calculated to impress the mind of the reader with feelings of love for what is good, and abhorrence for what is evil._”――ROCK.

=THE HILLFORD CONFIRMATION: A TALE.= By M. C. PHILLPOTTS. 18mo. 1s.

=APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.= By the Rev. ARTHUR W. HADDAN, B.D., Rector of Barton-on-the-Heath, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. 8vo. 12s.

“_Mr. Haddan’s estimate of the bearing of his subject, and of its special importance at the present juncture is characteristic, and will well repay attention.... Mr. Haddan is strictly argumentative throughout. He abstains with some strictness from everything which would divert either his reader or himself from accurate investigation of his reasoning. But his volume is thoroughly well written, clear and forcible in style, and fair in tone. It cannot but render valuable service in placing the claims of the Church in their true light before the English public._”――GUARDIAN.

“_Among the many standard theological works devoted to this important subject Mr. Haddan’s will hold a high place._”――STANDARD.

“_We should be glad to see the volume widely circulated and generally read._”――JOHN BULL.

“_A weighty and valuable treatise, and we hope that the study of its sound and well-reasoned pages will do much to fix the importance, and the full meaning of the doctrine in question, in the minds of Church people.... We hope that our extracts will lead our readers to study Mr. Haddan for themselves._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

“_This is not only a very able and carefully written treatise upon the doctrine of Apostolical Succession, but it is also a calm yet noble vindication of the validity of the Anglican Orders: it well sustains the brilliant reputation which Mr. Haddan left behind him at Oxford, and it supplements his other profound historical researches in ecclesiastical matters. This book will remain for a long time the classic work upon English Orders._”――CHURCH REVIEW.

“_A very temperate, but a very well reasoned book._”――WESTMINSTER REVIEW.

“_Mr. Haddan ably sustains his reputation throughout the work. His style is clear, his inferences are reasonable, and the publication is especially well-timed in prospect of the coming Œcumenical Council._”――CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY GAZETTE.

=A MANUAL FOR THE SICK=; with other Devotions. By LANCELOT ANDREWES, D.D., sometime Lord Bishop of Winchester. Edited with a Preface by H. P. LIDDON, M.A. Large type. With Portrait. 24mo. 2s. 6d.

=HELP AND COMFORT FOR THE SICK POOR.= By the Author of “Sickness; its Trials and Blessings.” New Edition. Small 8vo. 1s.

=A DEVOTIONAL COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL NARRATIVE.= By the Rev. ISAAC WILLIAMS, B.D., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. A New and uniform Edition. In Eight volumes. Crown 8vo. 5s. each.

_THOUGHTS ON THE STUDY OF THE HOLY GOSPELS._

Characteristic Differences in the Four Gospels. Our Lord’s Manifestations of Himself. The Rule of Scriptural Interpretation furnished by our Lord. Analogies of the Gospel. Mention of Angels in the Gospels. Places of our Lord’s Abode and Ministry. Our Lord’s Mode of Dealing with His Apostles. Conclusion.

_A HARMONY OF THE FOUR EVANGELISTS._

Our Lord’s Nativity. Our Lord’s Ministry――Second Year. Our Lord’s Ministry――Third Year. The Holy Week. Our Lord’s Passion. Our Lord’s Resurrection.

_OUR LORD’S NATIVITY._

The Birth at Bethlehem. The Baptism in Jordan. The First Passover.

_OUR LORD’S MINISTRY._ SECOND YEAR.

The Second Passover. Christ with the Twelve. The Twelve sent forth.

_OUR LORD’S MINISTRY._ THIRD YEAR.

Teaching in Galilee. Teaching at Jerusalem. Last Journey from Galilee to Jerusalem.

_THE HOLY WEEK._

The Approach to Jerusalem. The Teaching in the Temple. The Discourse on the Mount of Olives. The Last Supper.

_OUR LORD’S PASSION._

The Hour of Darkness. The Agony. The Apprehension. The Condemnation. The Day of Sorrows. The Hall of Judgment. The Crucifixion. The Sepulture.

_OUR LORD’S RESURRECTION._

The Day of Days. The Grave Visited. Christ Appearing. The Going to Emmaus. The Forty Days. The Apostles Assembled. The Lake in Galilee. The Mountain in Galilee. The Return from Galilee.

“_There is not a better companion to be found for the season than the beautiful ‘Devotional Commentary on the Gospel Narrative,’ by the Rev. Isaac Williams.... A rich mine for devotional and theological study._”――GUARDIAN.

“_So infinite are the depths and so innumerable the beauties of Scripture, and more particularly of the Gospels, that there is some difficulty in describing the manifold excellences of Williams’ exquisite Commentary. Deriving its profound appreciation of Scripture from the writings of the early Fathers, it is only what every student knows must be true to say that it extracts a whole wealth of meaning from each sentence, each apparently faint allusion, each word in the text._”――CHURCH REVIEW.

“_Stands absolutely alone to our English literature; there is, we should say, no chance of being superseded by any better book of its kind; and its merits are of the very highest order._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

“_It would be difficult to select a more useful present, at a small cost, than this series would be to a young man on his first entering into Holy Orders, and many, no doubt, will avail themselves of the republication of these useful volumes for this purpose. There is an abundance of sermon material to be drawn from any one of them._”――CHURCH TIMES.

“_This is, in the truest sense of the word, a ‘Devotional Commentary’ on the Gospel narrative, opening out everywhere, as it does, the spiritual beauties and blessedness of the Divine message; but it is something more than this, it meets difficulties almost by anticipation, and throws the light of learning over some of the very darkest passages in the New Testament._”――ROCK.

“_The author has skilfully compared and blended the narratives of the different Gospels, so as to give a synoptical view of the history; and though the commentary is called ‘devotional,’ it is scholarly and suggestive in other respects. The size of the work, extending, as it does, over eight volumes, may deter purchasers and readers; but each volume is complete in itself, and we recommend students to taste a sample of the author’s quality. Some things they may question; but the volumes are really a helpful and valuable addition to our stores._”――FREEMAN.

“_The high and solemn verities of the Saviour’s sufferings and death are treated with great reverence and ability. The thorough devoutness which pervades the book commends it to our heart. There is much to instruct and help the believer in the Christian life, no matter to what section of the Church he may belong._”――WATCHMAN.

KEYS TO CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.

=A KEY TO THE KNOWLEDGE AND USE OF THE HOLY BIBLE.= By the Rev. J. H. BLUNT, M.A. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d.

“_Another of Mr. Blunt’s useful and workmanlike compilations, which will be most acceptable as a household book, or in schools and colleges. It is a capital book too for schoolmasters and pupil teachers._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

“_As a popular handbook, setting forth a selection of facts of which everybody ought to be cognizant, and as an exposition of the claims of the Bible to be received as of superhuman origin, Mr. Blunt’s ‘Key’ will be useful._”――CHURCHMAN.

“_A great deal of useful information is comprised in these pages, and the book will no doubt be extensively circulated in Church families._”――CLERICAL JOURNAL.

“_We have much pleasure in recommending a capital handbook by the learned editor of ‘The Annotated Book of Common Prayer.’_”――CHURCH TIMES.

“_Merits commendation for the lucid and orderly arrangement in which it presents a considerable amount of valuable and interesting matter._”――RECORD.

=A KEY TO THE KNOWLEDGE AND USE OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.= By the Rev. J. H. BLUNT, M.A. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d.

“_A very valuable and practical manual, full of information, which is admirably calculated to instruct and interest those for whom it was evidently specially intended――the laity of the Church of England. It deserves high commendation._”――CHURCHMAN.

“_A thoroughly sound and valuable manual._”――CHURCH TIMES.

“_To us it appears that Mr. Blunt has succeeded very well. All necessary information seems to be included, and the arrangement is excellent._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

“_It is the best short explanation of our offices that we know of, and would be invaluable for the use of candidates for confirmation in the higher classes._”――JOHN BULL.

=A KEY TO CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE FOUNDED ON THE CHURCH CATECHISM.= By the Rev. JOHN HENRY BLUNT, M.A. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d.

“_Of cheap and reliable text-books of this nature there has hitherto been a great want. We are often asked to recommend books for use in Church Sunday-schools, and we therefore take this opportunity of saying that we know of none more likely to be of service both to teachers and scholars than these ‘Keys.’_”――CHURCHMAN’S SHILLING MAGAZINE.

“_This is another of Mr. Blunt’s most useful manuals, with all the precision of a school book, yet diverging into matters of practical application so freely as to make it most serviceable, either as a teacher’s suggestion book, or as an intelligent pupil’s reading book._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

“_Will be very useful for the higher classes in Sunday-schools, or rather for the fuller instruction of the Sunday-school teachers themselves, where the parish priest is wise enough to devote a certain time regularly to their preparation for their voluntary task._”――UNION REVIEW.

“_Another of the many useful books on theological and Scriptural subjects which have been written by the Rev. John Henry Blunt. The present is entitled ‘A Key to Christian Doctrine and Practice, founded on the Church Catechism,’ and will take its place as an elementary text-book upon the Creed in our schools and colleges. The Church Catechism is clearly and fully explained by the author in this ‘Key’. Numerous references, Scriptural and otherwise, are scattered about the book._”――PUBLIC OPINION.

=A KEY TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHURCH HISTORY.= (Ancient.) Edited by JOHN HENRY BLUNT, M.A. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d.

“_It offers a short and condensed account of the origin, growth, and condition of the Church in all parts of the world, from A.D. 1 down to the end of the fifteenth century. Mr. Blunt’s first object has been conciseness, and this has been admirably carried out, and to students of Church history this feature will readily recommend itself. As an elementary work ‘A Key’ will be specially valuable, inasmuch as it points out certain definite lines of thought, by which those who enjoy the opportunity may be guided in reading the statements of more elaborate histories. At the same time it is but fair to Mr. Blunt to remark that, for general readers, the little volume contains everything that could be consistently expected in a volume of its character. There are many notes, theological, scriptural, and historical, and the ‘get up’ of the book is specially commendable. As a text-book for the higher forms of schools the work will be acceptable to numerous teachers._”――PUBLIC OPINION.

“_It contains some concise notes on Church History, compressed into a small compass, and we think it is likely to be useful as a book of reference._”――JOHN BULL.

“_A very terse and reliable collection of the main facts and incidents connected with Church History._”――ROCK.

“_It will be excellent, either for school or home use, either as a reading or as a reference book, on all the main facts and names and controversies of the first fifteen centuries. It is both well arranged and well written._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

=A KEY TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHURCH HISTORY= (Modern). Edited by the Rev. JOHN HENRY BLUNT, M.A. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d.

=A KEY TO THE NARRATIVE OF THE FOUR GOSPELS.= By JOHN PILKINGTON NORRIS, M.A., Canon of Bristol, formerly one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Schools. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d.

“_This is very much the best book of its kind we have seen. The only fault is its shortness, which prevents its going into the details which would support and illustrate its statements, and which in the process of illustrating them would fix them upon the minds and memories of its readers. It is, however, a great improvement upon any book of its kind we know. It bears all the marks of being the condensed work of a real scholar, and of a divine too. The bulk of the book is taken up with a ‘Life of Christ’ compiled from the Four Gospels so as to exhibit its steps and stages and salient points. The rest of the book consists of independent chapters on special points._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

“_This book is no ordinary compendium, no mere ‘cram-book’; still less is it an ordinary reading book for schools; but the schoolmaster, the Sunday-school teacher and the seeker after a comprehensive knowledge of Divine truth will find it worthy of its name. Canon Norris writes simply, reverently, without great display of learning, giving the result of much careful study in a short compass, and adorning the subject by the tenderness and honesty with which he treats it.... We hope that this little book will have a very wide circulation and that it will be studied; and we can promise that those who take it up will not readily put it down again._”――RECORD.

“_This is a golden little volume. Having often to criticise unsparingly volumes published by Messrs. Rivington, and bearing the deep High Church brand, it is the greater satisfaction to be able to commend this book so emphatically. Its design is exceedingly modest. Canon Norris writes primarily to help ‘younger students’ in studying the Gospels. But this unpretending volume is one which all students may study with advantage. It is an admirable manual for those who take Bible Classes through the Gospels. Closely sifted in style, so that all is clear and weighty; full of unostentatious learning, and pregnant with suggestion; deeply reverent in spirit, and altogether Evangelical in spirit; Canon Norris’ book supplies a real want, and ought to be welcomed by all earnest and devout students of the Holy Gospels._”――LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW.

=A KEY TO THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.= By JOHN PILKINGTON NORRIS, M.A. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d.

“_It is a remarkably well-written and interesting account of its subject, ‘The Book of the Acts,’ giving us the narrative of St. Luke with exactly what we want in the way of connecting links and illustrations. One most notable and praiseworthy characteristic of the book is its candour.... The book is one which we can heartily recommend._”――SPECTATOR.

“_Of Canon Norris’s ‘Key to the Narrative of the Four Gospels,’ we wrote in high approval not many months ago. The present is not less carefully prepared, and is full of the unostentatious results of sound learning and patient thought._”――LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW.

“_This little volume is one of a series of ‘Keys’ of a more or less educational character, which are in the course of publication by Messrs. Rivington. It gives apparently a very fair and tolerably exhaustive résumé of the contexts of the Acts, with which it deals, not chapter by chapter, but consecutively in the order of thought._”――SCHOOL BOARD CHRONICLE.

“_Few books have ever given us more unmixed pleasure than this. It is faultlessly written, so that it reads as pleasantly and enticingly as if it had not the least intention of being an ‘educational’ book. It is complete and exhaustive, so far as the narrative and all its bearings go, so that students may feel that they need not be hunting up other books to supply the |lacunæ|. It is the work of a classical scholar, and it leaves nothing wanting in the way of classical illustrations, which in the case of the Acts are of special importance. And, lastly, it is theologically sound._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

“_This is a sequel to Canon Norris’s ‘Key to the Gospels,’ which was published two years ago, and which has become a general favourite with those who wish to grasp the leading features of the life and word of Christ. The sketch of the Acts of the Apostles is done in the same style; there is the same reverent spirit and quiet enthusiasm running through it, and the same instinct for seizing the leading points in the narrative._”――RECORD.

⁂ _Other Volumes are in preparation._

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“_This work is a precious relic of mediæval times, and will continue to be valued by every section of the Christian Church._”――WEEKLY REVIEW.

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“_An extremely well-printed and well got up edition, as pretty and graceful as possible, and yet not too fine for real use. We wish the devotions of this beautiful book were more commonly used._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

“_We must admit that there is a want of helps to spiritual life amongst us. Our age is so secular, and in religious movements so bustling, that it is to be feared the inner life is too often forgotten. Our public teachers may, we are sure, gain by consulting books which show how contentedness and self-renunciation may be increased; and in which the pathology of all human affections is treated with a fulness not common in our theological class rooms._”――FREEMAN.

“_The publishers have done good service by the production of these beautiful editions of works, which will never lose their preciousness to devout Christian spirits. It is not necessary for us to say a word as to their intrinsic merits; we have only to testify to the good taste, judgment, and care shown in these editions. They are extremely beautiful in typography and in the general getting up._”――ENGLISH INDEPENDENT.

“_We ought not to conclude our notice of recent devotional books, without mentioning to our readers the above new, elegant, and cheap reprint, which we trust will never be out of date or out of favour in the English branch of the Catholic Church._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

“_These manuals of piety written by the pen of the most beautiful writer and the most impressive divine of the English Church, need no commendation from us. They are known to the world, read in all lands, and translated, we have heard, into fifty different languages. For two centuries they have fed the faith of thousands upon thousands of souls, now we trust happy with their God, and perhaps meditating in Heaven with gratitude on their celestial truths, kindled in their souls by a writer who was little short of being inspired._”――ROCK.

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“_Either separate or bound together, may be had these two standard works of the great divine. A good edition very tastefully printed and bound._”――RECORD.

=A SHORT AND PLAIN INSTRUCTION FOR THE BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE LORD’S SUPPER=; to which is annexed the Office of the Holy Communion, with proper Helps and Directions. By THOMAS WILSON, D.D., late Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man. Complete Edition, in large type.

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“_The Messrs. Rivington have published a new and unabridged edition of that deservedly popular work, Bishop Wilson on the Lord’s Supper. The edition is here presented in three forms, suited to the various members of the household._”――PUBLIC OPINION.

“_We cannot withhold the expression of our admiration of the style and elegance in which this work is got up._”――PRESS AND ST. JAMES’ CHRONICLE.

“_A departed author being dead yet speaketh in a way which will never be out of date; Bishop Wilson on the Lord’s Supper, published by Messrs. Rivington, in bindings to suit all tastes and pockets._”――CHURCH REVIEW.

“_We may here fitly record that Bishop Wilson on the Lord’s Supper has been issued in a new but unabridged form._”――DAILY TELEGRAPH.

=INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVOUT LIFE.= From the French of SAINT FRANCIS of Sales, Bishop and Prince of Geneva. A New Translation.

“_A very beautiful edition of S. Francis de Sales’ ‘Devout Life:’ a prettier little edition for binding, type, and paper, of a very great book is not often seen._”――CHURCH REVIEW.

“_The translation is a good one, and the volume is beautifully got up. It would serve admirably as a gift book to those who are able to appreciate so spiritual a writer as St. Francis._”――CHURCH TIMES.

“_It has been the food and hope of countless souls ever since its first appearance two centuries and a half ago, and it still ranks with Scupoli’s ‘Combattimento Spirituale,’ and Arvisenet’s ‘Memoriale Vitæ Sacerdotalis,’ as among the very best works of ascetic theology. We are glad to commend this careful and convenient version to our readers._”――UNION REVIEW.

“_We should be curious to know by how many different hands ‘The Devout Life’ of S. Francis de Sales had been translated into English. At any rate, its popularity is so great that Messrs. Rivington have just issued another translation of it. The style is good, and the volume is of a most convenient size._”――JOHN BULL.

“_To readers of religious treatises, this volume will be highly valued. The ‘Introduction to the Devout Life’ is preceded by a sketch of the life of the author, and a dedicatory prayer of the author is also given._”――PUBLIC OPINION.

=A PRACTICAL TREATISE CONCERNING EVIL THOUGHTS=: wherein their Nature, Origin, and Effect are distinctly considered and explained, with many Useful Rules for restraining and suppressing such Thoughts; suited to the various conditions of Life, and the several tempers of Mankind, more especially of melancholy Persons. By WILLIAM CHILCOT, M.A.

“_An elegant edition of an old devotional manual by a clergyman who was a rector in Exeter at the beginning of the last century. It seems to contain a great deal of valuable truth as to the sources of evil thoughts and the mode in which they may be expressed._”――ENGLISH INDEPENDENT.

“_The book is worthy of a careful perusal, and is one which once known is likely to be recurred to again and again, a characteristic not always to be met within works of our own day._”――RECORD.

“_Messrs. Rivington have done all that publishers could do to give strengthening matter a cheerful form._”――CHURCH REVIEW.

=THE ENGLISH POEMS OF GEORGE HERBERT=, together with his Collection of Proverbs, entitled JACULA PRUDENTUM.

“_This beautiful little volume will be found specially convenient as a pocket manual. The ‘Jacula Prudentum’ or proverbs, deserve to be more widely known than they are at present. In many copies of George Herbert’s writings these quaint sayings have been unfortunately omitted._”――ROCK.

“_George Herbert is too much a household name to require any introduction. It will be sufficient to say that Messrs. Rivington have published a most compact and convenient edition of the poems and proverbs of this illustrious English divine._”――ENGLISH CHURCHMAN.

“_An exceedingly pretty edition, the most attractive form we have yet seen from this delightful author, as a gift-book._”――UNION REVIEW.

“_A very beautiful edition of the quaint old English bard. All lovers of the ‘Holy’ Herbert will be grateful to Messrs. Rivington for the care and pains they have bestowed in supplying them with this and withal convenient copy of poems so well known and so deservedly prized._”――LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW.

“_A very tasteful little book, and will doubtless be acceptable to many._”――RECORD.

“_We commend this little book heartily to our readers. It contains Herbert’s English poems and the ‘Jacula Prudentum,’ in a very neat volume which does much credit to the publishers; it will, we hope, meet with extensive circulation as a choice gift-book at a moderate price._”――CHRISTIAN OBSERVER.

_NEW THEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY._

=DICTIONARY OF DOCTRINAL AND HISTORICAL THEOLOGY.= By various writers. Edited by the Rev. JOHN HENRY BLUNT, M.A., F.S.A. Editor of the Annotated Book of Common Prayer. Second Edition.

_Complete in one volume of 833 pages, imperial 8vo (equal to six 8vo volumes of 400 pages each), and printed in large readable type, 42s. or half-bound in morocco, 52s. 6d._

1. NATURE OF THE WORK. This Dictionary consists of a series of original Essays (alphabetically arranged, and 575 in number) on all the principal subjects connected with the Doctrines of the Christian Church. Some idea of the subjects, and of the length of the articles, may be formed from the following titles of those which occupy the work from page 700 to page 720.

SIGN. SPINOZISM. SUFFRAGAN. SIMONY. SPIRIT. SUNDAY. SIN. SPIRIT, THE HOLY. SUPEREROGATION. SINAITIC CODEX. SPONSORS. SUPERNATURAL. SOCINIANISM. SUBDEACONS. SUPERSTITION. SOLIFIDIANISM. SUBLAPSARIANISM. SUPRALAPSARIANISM. SOUL. SUBSTANCE. SUPREMACY, PAPAL.

2. OBJECT OF THE WORK. The writers of all the Essays have endeavoured to make them sufficiently exhaustive to render it unnecessary for the majority of readers to go further for information, and, at the same time, sufficiently suggestive of more recondite sources of Theological study, to help the student in following up his subjects. By means of a Table prefixed to the Dictionary, a regular course of such study may be carried out in its pages.

3. PRINCIPLES OF THE WORK. The Editor and his coadjutors have carefully avoided any party bias, and consequently the work cannot be said to be either “High Church,” “Low Church,” or “Broad Church.” The only bias of the Dictionary is that given by Revelation, History, Logic, and the literary idiosyncrasy of each particular contributor. But the Editor has not attempted to assist the circulation of the book by making it colourless on the pretence of impartiality. Errors are freely condemned, and truths are expressed as if they were worth expressing; but he believes that no terms of condemnation which may be used ever transgress the bounds of Christian courtesy.

4. PART OF A SERIES. The Dictionary of Theology is complete in itself, but it is also intended to form part of a Series, entitled, “A Summary of Theology,” of which the second volume, “A Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, and Schools of Thought,” is in the press.

“_Taken as a whole the articles are the work of practised writers, and well informed and solid theologians.... We know no book of its size and bulk which supplies the information here given at all; far less which supplies it in an arrangement so accessible, with a completeness of information so thorough, and with an ability in the treatment of profound subjects so great. Dr. Hook’s most useful volume is a work of high calibre, but it is the work of a single mind. We have here a wider range of thought from a greater variety of sides. We have here also the work of men who evidently know what they write about and are somewhat more profound (to say the least), than the writers of the current Dictionaries of Sects and Heresies._”――GUARDIAN.

“_Mere antiquarianism, however interesting, has little place in it. But for all practical purposes its historical articles are excellent. They are of course, and of necessity, a good deal condensed, yet they are wonderfully complete; see for example such articles as ‘Atheism,’ ‘Cabbala,’ ‘Calvinism,’ ‘Canonization,’ ‘Convocations,’ ‘Evangelical,’ ‘Fathers,’ ‘Infant Baptism,’ &c., &c. But the strength of the book lies in the theology proper, and herein more particularly in what one may call the metaphysical side of doctrine:――see the articles on ‘Conceptualism,’ ‘Doubt,’ ‘Dualism,’ ‘Election,’ ‘Eternity,’ ‘Everlasting Punishment,’ ‘Fatalism,’ and the like. We mention these as characteristic of the book. At the same time other more practical matters are fully dealt with. There are excellent and elaborate papers on such words as ‘Eucharist,’ ‘Confession,’ ‘Blood,’ ‘Cross,’ ‘Antichrist,’ to say nothing of the host of minor matters on which it is most convenient to be able to turn to a book which gives you at a glance the pith of a whole library in a column or a page. Thus it will be obvious that it takes a very much wider range than any undertaking of the same kind in our language; and that to those of our clergy who have not the fortune to spend in books, and would not have the leisure to use them if they possessed them, it will be the most serviceable and reliable substitute for a large library we can think of. And in many cases, while keeping strictly within its province as a Dictionary, it contrives to be marvellously suggestive of thought and reflections, which a serious minded man will take with him and ponder over for his own elaboration and future use. As an example of this we may refer to the whole article on Doubt. It is treated of under the successive heads of,――(1) its nature; (2) its origin; (3) the history of the principal periods of Doubt; (4) the consciousness――or actual experience of Doubt, and how to deal with its different phases and kinds; (5) the relations of Doubt to action and to belief. To explain a little we will here quote a paragraph or two, which may not be unacceptable to our readers.... The variety of the references given in the course of this article, and at its conclusion, show how carefully the writer has thought out and studied his subject in its various manifestations in many various minds, and illustrate very forcibly how much reading goes to a very small amount of space in anything worth the name of ‘Dictionary of Theology.’ We trust most sincerely that the book may be largely used. For a present to a clergyman on his ordination, or from a parishioner to his pastor, it would be most appropriate. It may indeed be called ‘a box of tools for a working clergyman.’_”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

“_Seldom has an English work of equal magnitude been so permeated with Catholic instincts, and at the same time seldom has a work on theology been kept so free from the drift of rhetorical incrustation. Of course it is not meant that all these remarks apply in their full extent to every article. In a great Dictionary there are compositions, as in a great house there are vessels, of various kinds. Some of these at a future day may be replaced by others more substantial in their build, more proportionate in their outline, and more elaborate in their detail. But admitting all this, the whole remains a home to which the student will constantly recur, sure to find spacious chambers, substantial furniture, and (which is most important) no stinted light._”――CHURCH REVIEW.

“_The second and final instalment of Mr. Blunt’s useful Dictionary, itself but a part of a more comprehensive plan, is now before the public, and fully sustains the mainly favourable impression created by the appearance of the first part. Within the sphere it has marked out for itself, no equally useful book of reference exists in English for the elucidation of theological problems.... Entries which display much care, research, and judgment in compilation, and which will make the task of the parish priest who is brought face to face with any of the practical questions which they involve far easier than has been hitherto. The very fact that the utterances are here and there somewhat more guarded and hesitating than quite accords with our judgment, is a gain in so far as it protects the work from the charge of inculcating extreme views, and will thus secure its admission in many places where moderation is accounted the crowning grace._”――CHURCH TIMES.

“_The writers who are at work on it are scholars and theologians, and earnest defenders of the Christian faith. They evidently hold fast the fundamental doctrines of Christianity, and have the religious instruction of the rising ministry at heart. Moreover, their scheme is a noble one; it does credit not only to their learning and zeal, but also to their tact and discretion._”――LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW.

“_Infinitely the best book of the kind in the language; and, if not the best conceivable, it is perhaps the best we are ever likely to see within its compass as to size and scope. Accurate and succinct in statement, it may safely be trusted as a handbook as regards facts, while in our judgment, this second part still maintains the character we gave the first, namely, of showing most ability in its way of treating the more abstract and metaphysical side of theological questions. The liturgical articles also in this part deserve especial mention. The book is sure to make its own way by sheer force of usefulness._”――LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

“_It is not open to doubt that this work, of which the second and concluding part has just been issued, is in every sense a valuable and important one. Mr. Blunt’s Dictionary is a most acceptable addition to English theological literature. Its general style is terse and vigorous. Whilst its pages are free from wordiness, there is none of that undue condensation which, under the plea of judicious brevity, veils a mere empty jotting down of familiar statements (and mis-statements), at second or, it may be, third hand from existing works. Dean Hook’s well-known Dictionary makes the nearest approach to the one now before us, but Mr. Blunt’s is decidedly the better of the two._”――ENGLISH CHURCHMAN.

“_It will be found of admirable service to all students of theology, as advancing and maintaining the Church’s views of all subjects as fall within the range of fair argument and inquiry. It is not often that a work of so comprehensive and so profound a nature is marked to the very end by so many signs of wide and careful research, sound criticism, and well-founded and well-expressed belief._”――STANDARD.

=THE HAPPINESS OF THE BLESSED CONSIDERED= as to the Particulars of their State: their Recognition of each other in that State: and its Differences of Degrees. To which are added Musings on the Church and her Services. By RICHARD MANT, D.D., sometime Lord Bishop of Down and Connor. New Edition. Small 8vo. 3s. 6d.

“_A welcome republication of a treatise once highly valued, and which can never lose its value. Many of our readers already know the fulness and discrimination with which the author treats his subject, which must be one of the most delightful topics of meditation to all whose heart is where the only true treasure is, and particularly to those who are entering upon the evening of life._”――CHURCH REVIEW.

“_The value of this book needs not to be referred to, its standard character having been for many years past established. The edition in which it reappears has evidently been carefully prepared, and will be the means of making it more generally known._”――BELL’S MESSENGER.

“_All recognise the authority of the command to set the affections on things above, and such works as the one now before us will be found helpful towards this good end. We are, therefore, sincerely glad that Messrs. Rivington have brought out a new edition of Bishop Mant’s valuable treatise._”――RECORD.

“_This beautiful and devotional treatise, which it is impossible to read without feeling a more deepened interest in the eternal blessedness which awaits the true servants of our God, concludes very appropriately with ‘Musings on the Church and her Services,’ which we cordially recommend to our readers._”――ROCK.

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=AIDS TO PRAYER; OR, THOUGHTS ON THE PRACTICE OF DEVOTION.= With Forms of Prayer for Private Use. By DANIEL MOORE, M.A., Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, and Vicar of Holy Trinity, Paddington, Author of “Sermons on Special Occasions,” Hulsean Lectures on “The Age and the Gospel,” &c. Second Edition. Square 32mo. 2s. 6d.

“_The valuable characteristic of this work will be recognised by every serious, thoughtful Christian, in a word, by all who perceive and lament the growing tendency to prefer the claims of external service, ecclesiastical controversy, or multiplied activities to the practice of private devotion. ‘Aids to Prayer’ offers both encouragement and help to those who aspire to higher attainments in the Divine Life. Every page bears the impress of a matured judgment, and of an experimental acquaintance with a subject confessedly difficult, and of supreme importance._”――RECORD.

“_Eloquently, ably, and practically written._”――ENGLISH CHURCHMAN.

“_‘Aids to Prayer’ has deservedly reached a second edition. The sermon method of treatment has been wisely discontinued._”――JOHN BULL.

=THE ATHANASIAN ORIGIN OF THE ATHANASIAN CREED.= By J. S. BREWER, M.A., Preacher at the Rolls, and Honorary Fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.

=THE REFORMATION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND=: its History, Principles, and Results, A.D. 1514‒1547. By JOHN HENRY BLUNT, M.A., Vicar of Kennington, Oxford. Second Edition. 8vo. 16s.

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=SERMONS BEARING UPON SUBJECTS OF THE DAY.= By JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, B.D. Edited by the Rev. W. J. COPELAND, Rector of Farnham, Essex. With an Index of Dates of all the Sermons. Crown 8vo. 5s.

=FIFTEEN SERMONS PREACHED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD=, BETWEEN A.D. 1826 AND 1843. By JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, B.D., sometime Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 5s.

=HERBERT TRESHAM.= A Tale of the Great Rebellion. By the late Rev. J. M. NEALE, D.D. New Edition. Small 8vo. 3s. 6d.

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“_A pleasant Christmas present is Dr. Neale’s ‘Herbert Tresham.’ Such a book is well calculated to correct current views of 17th century history._”――CHURCH REVIEW.

“_Nothing could be more admirable as a Christmas present._”――CHURCH NEWS.

=THE MANOR FARM: A TALE.= By M. C. PHILLPOTTS, Author of “The Hillford Confirmation.” With Illustrations. Small 8vo. 3s. 6d.

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“_A prettily got-up and prettily written little book above the average of the class it belongs to._”――EDINBURGH COURANT.

=PERRANZABULOE, THE LOST CHURCH FOUND=; Or the Church of England not a New Church, but Ancient, Apostolical, and Independent, and a Protesting Church Nine Hundred Years before the Reformation. By the Rev. C. T. COLLINS TRELAWNY. Seventh Edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.

=SACRED ALLEGORIES.= Illustrated Edition. By the Rev. W. ADAMS, M.A., late Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.

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=SICKNESS; ITS TRIALS AND BLESSINGS.= New Edition. Small 8vo. 3s. 6d.

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=CATENA CLASSICORUM=

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INDEX (to the Catalog)

PAGE ABBOTT (Evelyn), Selections from Lucian, 30

Adams (W.), Holy Week, 3

――――, Sacred Allegories, 27

À Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 22

Alford (Henry), Greek Testament, 16

――――, New Testament for English Readers, 16

Andrewes (Bishop Lancelot), Manual for the Sick, 18

Annotated Prayer Book, By J. H. Blunt, 13

Annual Register, 10

Aristophanis Comoediae, by W. C. Green, 28

Aristophanes (Scenes from), by Sidgwick, 30

Avancini, Vita et Doctrina Jesu Christi, 16

BICKERSTETH (E. H.), Two Brothers, 7

――――, Yesterday, To-Day, etc., 7

Bigg (Chas), Thucydidis Historia, 28

Blunt (J. H.) Directorium Pastorale, 6

――――, Household Theology, 13

――――, Key to Bible, 20

――――, Key to Church Catechism, 20

――――, Key to Church History (Ancient), 20

――――, Key to Church History (Modern), 21

――――, Key to Common Prayer, 20

――――, Reformation, 26

――――, and Norris (J. P.), Keys to Christian Knowledge, 20

――――, and Phillimore (G. F.), Book of Church Law, 1

Body (George), Life of Justification, 9

Book of Lessons, 26

――――, The, Church Law, 1

Brewer (J. S.), Athanasian Creed, 26

Bright (A. W.), and Medd (P. G.), Liber Precum Publicarum, 13

Bruton (E. G.), Ecclesiastical Dilapidations, 7

CAMPION (W. M.) and Beamont (W. J.), Prayer Book Interleaved, 10

Catena Classicorum, 28

Chilcot (William), Evil Thoughts, 23

Church Builder, 26

Common Prayer and Ordinal, 1549, 16

Companion to Old Testament, 14

Consolatio, by C. E. Kennaway, 6

DEMOSTHENIS ORATIONES, by Arthur Holmes, 28

――――, Publicae, by G. H. Heslop, 28

Dictionary of Theology, 24

Döllinger (John J. Ign. Von.), Fables respecting the Popes, &c., 14

――――, Lectures on Reunion, 3

Dominican Artist (A), 4

EDWARD VI., First Book of Common Prayer of, 16

Euripides, Scenes from, by Sidgwick, 30

FIELD (Walter), Stones of the Temple, 8

Fosbery (T. V.), Hymns and Poems, &c., 7

GLOSSARY of Ecclesiastical Terms, by Orby Shipley, 7

Goulburn (Dean), Manual of Confirmation, 6

――――, Family Prayers, 6

――――, Pursuit of Holiness, 6

――――, Thoughts on Personal Religion, 1

Gould (S. B.) Curious Myths, &c., 17

――――, Religious Belief, 3

Gratry (Père), Henri Perreyve, 5

――――, Last Days of, 5

Greek Testament, by Dean Alford, 16

Green (W. C.), Aristophanis Comoediae, 28

Guide to Heaven, 2

Gurney (Augustus), Home Life of Jesus of Nazareth, 12

HADDAN (A. W.), Apostolic Succession, 18

Help and Comfort for the Sick Poor, 18

Herbert (George), Poems and Proverbs, 23

Herodoti Historia, by H. G. Woods, 28

Hidden Life of the Soul, 4

Hodgson (Chris.), Instructions for the Clergy, 16

Holmes (Arthur), Demosthenis Orationes, 28

Homeri Ilias, by. S. H. Reynolds, 28

Hook (W. F.), Family Prayers, 6

Hoole (Chas. H.), Shepherd of Hermas, 6

Hymns and Poems, by T. V. Fosbery, 7

IMITATION of Christ, 22

Isocratis Orationes, by John Edwin Sandys, 28

JANUS, Pope and Council, 17

Jebb (R. C.), Sophoclis Tragoediae, 28

Juvenalis Satirae, by G. A. Simcox, 28

KAY (W.) on the Psalms, 13

Keys to Christian Knowledge, 19, 20

Kennaway (C. E.), Consolatio, 6

LETTERS from Rome on the Council, by Quirinus, 17

Liber Precum Publicarum, 13

Liddon (H. P.), Bampton Lectures, 13

――――, Elements of Religion, 13

――――, University Sermons, 13

Louise, Life of Madame, de France, 4

Lyte (Henry F.), Poems, 11

MACCOLL (M.), Damnatory Clauses, etc., 7

Mahan (Milo), Church History, 12

Mant (Richard), Ancient Hymns, 7

――――, Happiness of the Blessed, 26

Melvill (Henry), Sermons, 15

――――, Latter Sermons, 15

――――, Sermons on Less Prominent Facts, 15

Mercier (Anne), Our Mother Church, 15

Moberly (George), Brighstone Sermons, 3

――――, Great Forty Days, 3

Monsell (John S. B.), Parish Musings, 8

Moore (Daniel), Aids to Prayer, 26

――――, Sermons, 9

Mozley’s (J. B.) Lectures on the Miracles, 11

NEALE (J. M.), Herbert Tresham, 27

Newman (J. H.), Sermons, 27

――――, Sermons, Oxford University, 27

――――, Sermons, Subjects of the Day, 27

New Testament by Henry Alford, 16

Norris (J. B.), Key to the Acts, 21

――――, Key to the Four Gospels, 21

PAPILLON (T. L.), Terenti Comoediae, 28

Path of Holiness, 2

Perraud (Père A.), Last Days of Père Gratry, 5

Perreyve (Henri), Life of, 5

Persii Satirae, by A. Pretor, 28

Phillpotts (M. C.), Hillford Confirmation, 18

――――, Manor Farm, 27

Pope, The, and the Council, by Janus, 17

Prayer Book Interleaved, 10

Prayers and Meditations for Holy Communion, 10

QUIRINUS, Letters from Rome, 17

REYNOLDS (S. H.), Homeri Ilias, 28

Ridley (W. H.), Bible Readings, 11

Rivington’s Devotional Series, 22

―――― Mathematical Series, 29

Roberts (John), English Nursery Rhymes, 27

Romanoff (H. C.), Historical Narratives, 10

――――, Rites and Customs of the Greco-Russian Church, 14

――――, S. John Chrysostom’s Liturgy, 11

Rossetti (Maria F.), Shadow of Dante, 8

SALES (S. Francis de), Devout Life, 23

――――, Letters, 6

――――, Life, 5

――――, Spirit, 5

Sandys (J. E.), Isocratis Orationes, 28

Scudamore (W. E.), Manual of Prayers, 12

――――, Notitia Eucharistica, 12

Self-Renunciation, 3

Services of the Church, 26

Shakspere’s As You Like It, 30

―――― Coriolanus, 30

―――― Hamlet, 30

―――― Macbeth, 30

―――― Much Ado about Nothing, 30

―――― Tempest, 30

Shepherd of Hermas, 6

Shipley (Orby), Glossary of Ecclesiastical Terms, 7

Sickness; Its Trials, &c., 27

Sidgwick’s Scenes from Greek Plays, 30

Simcox (G. A.), Juvenalis Satirae, 28

Smith (J. H.), Algebra, Part I., 29

――――, Algebra, Exercises on, 29

――――, Geometry, 29

――――, Hydrostatics, 29

――――, Statics, 29

――――, Trigonometry, 29

Smith (R. Prowde), Latin Prose Exercises, 30

Sophoclis Tragoediae, by R. C. Jebb, 28

Stainer (John), Theory of Harmony, 11

Star of Childhood, 2

Stephens (A. J.), Argument: Sheppard v. Bennett, 14

Stone (S. J.), Poems, 9

Sutton (Fred. H.), Church Organs, 11

TAYLOR (Jeremy), Holy Dying, 22

――――, Holy Living, 22

Terenti Comoediae, by T. L. Papillon, 28

Thucydidis Historia, by Chas. Bigg, 28

Treasury of Devotion, 2

Trelawny, (C. T. C.), Perranzabuloe, 27

WALTON (H. B.), and Medd (P. G.), Common Prayer and Ordinal, 1549, 16

Way of Life, 2

Williams (Isaac), Devotional Commentary, 19

――――, Female Scripture Characters, 18

――――, Old Testament Characters, 18

Wilson (Bishop), Lord’s Supper, 22

Woods (H. G.), Herodoti Historia, 28

Wordsworth (Charles), Catechesis, 11